Stories
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Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
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Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19
Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.
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How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
Catalogue
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Modern American school buildings : being a treatise upon, and designs for, the construction of school buildings / by Warren Richard Briggs, F.A.I.A ; with 89 full-page illustrations.
Briggs, Warren Richard.Date: 1899- Books
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Comments on some plans of hospital construction / by Hermann M. Biggs.
Biggs, Hermann M.Date: 1912- Archives and manuscripts
Press cuttings and correspondence concerning Margaret Lowenfeld's articles on design of nursery schools, published in Building, Nov. 1945-1946
Date: 20/4/1945 - 1/2/1946Reference: PP/LOW/O/Z/3Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Books
School design and construction / by J.A. Godfrey and R. Castle Cleary.
Godfrey, James Arthur.Date: [1953]- Books
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Report of the Committee of Oculists and Electricians appointed April 29, 1907, on the artificial lighting and color schemes of school buildings, November, 1907.
Boston (Mass.). Committee of Oculists and Electricians.Date: 1907