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The pursuit of anti-ageing and wellbeing, at Saint Haven

The pursuit of anti-ageing and wellbeing, at Saint Haven

Gurner Group has just opened its first Australian Saint Haven private wellness club, boasting facilities, client services and an ethos that promotes wellness, anti-ageing and bio hacking. We took the private tour.

Silver Thomas Hanley on healthcare: Design brief, but with emotion

Silver Thomas Hanley on healthcare: Design brief, but with emotion

STH’s Anna Fox, Bill Kaloudis, Natalie Pitt and Stuart Turk put forward the case for emotionally responsive design with reference to healthcare projects that prioritise safety, views and space among other things.

Woods Bagot comment: ‘People-centric care’ sounds obvious, but we’re stuck in a system

Woods Bagot comment: ‘People-centric care’ sounds obvious, but we’re stuck in a system

In this comment piece on healthcare design, Edwina Bennett, associate principal at Woods Bagot, asserts that it’s time to prioritise people with new ways of organising our health spaces.

Spaces For Healing- Design Considerations for Walls & Ceilings in Healthcare Environments

Spaces For Healing- Design Considerations for Walls & Ceilings in Healthcare Environments

Produced by Gyprock

Welcome to Hospital Street: BLP realises Campbelltown expansion

Welcome to Hospital Street: BLP realises Campbelltown expansion

Opening in February 2023, the centrepiece of the $632 million Stage 2 Campbelltown Hospital Redevelopment in south-west Sydney realises the latest thinking around healthcare and healing environments. Campbelltown Hospital campus is almost doubled in size in Billard Leece Partnership’s (BLP) integrated design.

The 7 leaders of wellbeing in 2022

The 7 leaders of wellbeing in 2022

From gyms, hotels and beauty salons to the workplace, Indesign with Elana Castle surveys the future of wellbeing design. Read this comprehensive report, led by 7 inspiring international examples of wellbeing in 2022.

Hassell comment: How inclusive, universal design improves wellbeing in healthcare facilities

Hassell comment: How inclusive, universal design improves wellbeing in healthcare facilities

How do we design healthcare facilities where everyone feels included? The answer is to give people a choice.

How do we combat ageism through design?

How do we combat ageism through design?

At a recent panel discussion, entitled Designing To Defy Ageism, panellists looked to dissolve the myths around age brackets and what we may assume people need and want at a certain age. What came out of the event was a much wider discussion around understanding the needs and desires of an end-user.

McBride Charles Ryan: Engaging students, embracing growth

McBride Charles Ryan: Engaging students, embracing growth

McBride Charles Ryan looks ‘outside the box’ with its designs. Colourful and engaging, many of the practice’s award-winning designs can be found at Penleigh & Essendon Grammar School’s campuses.

Humanising healthcare interiors

Humanising healthcare interiors

KE-ZU’s thoughtful furniture solutions help to bring warmth and comfort to healthcare interiors, to improve patient experiences.

Herculean effort: A new paradigm for fitness design

Herculean effort: A new paradigm for fitness design

Created as a place to enhance daily workout life, Hercules Fitness is anything but your average gym.

It’s here, and healthy: Indesign’s ‘State of Wellbeing’ issue is now out

It’s here, and healthy: Indesign’s ‘State of Wellbeing’ issue is now out

Indesign magazine’s ‘State of Wellbeing’ issue is now on sale. Editor Alice Blackwood shares the very human-led highlights that are enlivening conversations around healthcare and wellbeing in design.