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“It’s a privilege to be able to support”: OFFICE works with Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
The Melbourne-based, not-for-profit practice has designed a new fit-out and outdoor gathering space for the Victorian Aboriginal Healthcare Service.
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The calm space
Through expert architecture, EBD Architects has provided a human face to great design and created a project that enhances the lives of people and community.
News
BLP’s Tara Veldman wins inaugural Australian Health Design Council Gold Medal
The BLP Managing Director & Principal has been named recipient of the very first Australian Health Design Council (AHDC) Gold Medal Award.
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Growing space: grovve by FARM and WY-TO reimagines youth wellness with design empathy
grovve sets a new benchmark in youth mental wellness design – an empathetic, biophilic sanctuary where mental wellbeing is nurtured through choice, comfort and co-creation.
Ideas
On healthcare and inclusion with BLP’s Tracy Lord
Healthcare design expert Tracy Lord joins us on the Stories Indesign podcast to discuss her varied inspiration and the need for nuance in her sector.
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Injecting a chemist with a contrasting material palette and design-led interventions
Blooms the Chemist by Tom Mark Henry defies the traditional pharmacy aesthetic by stepping away from the sterile landscapes of pharmacies.
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Architectus’ Ruah Centre for Women and Children marks an Australian first
Architectus has delivered Perth’s new Ruah Centre for Women and Children (RCWC), the first purpose-built facility of its kind in Australia for women and children affected by family and domestic violence.
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BLP comment: Can gender separation support mental health recovery?
Tonya Hinde, BLP Principal, comments on the importance of gender separation in the context of mental health design.
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A union of care and community
Extensive consultation with hospital staff and residents shaped the Canberra Hospital Expansion, a nine-storey structure that marks Australia’s inaugural fully operational electric hospital.
News
BLP expands in Queensland with the largest health infrastructure investment in the Wide Bay region
The new Bundaberg Hospital is the largest health infrastructure investment the Wide Bay region has ever seen.
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A sanctuary for health
Saving people’s lives and healing the mind and spirit, this hospital sensitively designed by SJK Architects is making a real difference to all who stay, visit and work within its walls.
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A beacon of hope: Queensland Cancer Centre designed by Billard Leece Partnership
Billard Leece Partnership leads the design of the Queensland Cancer Centre, a revolutionary healthcare facility symbolising innovation, sustainability and community well-being.
Workplace
Precision in practice: Adventist Medical Centre – CWB by Napp Studio & Architects
Adventist Medical Centre – CWB is a pilot project in which a curated medical interior enriches user experience while addressing operational imperatives with precision.
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BLP marks $658m healthcare project milestone in Sydney
BLP announces the topping out of Health Infrastructure’s $658m Sydney Children’s Hospital Stage 1 and Minderoo Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre building.
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Harmony and healing in mental health design with Hassell
Caring for our mental health is paramount these days and architecture and design can lead the way as Hassell shows in its latest project in Queensland.
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BLP’s Bettina Bartos on science, technology and healthcare design
To mark International Women’s Day 2024, we hear directly from the BLP Principal who has forged an impressive career designing in and around healthcare, science and technology.
Events
BLP on the principles of design for non-binary youth
We republish a speech delivered by Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) Health Lead, Tracy Lord, at the 2023 UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen.
Ideas
Rory Hunter: One man’s MODEL for build-to-rent
As he creates a template for the future, Rory Hunter envisages a type of build-to-rent that will deliver better lives for residents on every level.
Ideas
“Health precincts are about embracing diversity and a holistic approach”: Ben Rees
Health precincts are complicated, multi-dimensional places to develop, design, deliver and operate, writes Hassell’s Ben Rees. So, “how do we balance commercial imperatives with the need to foster connection, community and wellbeing?”
Ideas
Bates Smart comment: Can city-making inform hospital design?
From third spaces to connections with the urban realm, Alison Huynh shares her vision for healthy hospital design.
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Southern hemisphere gets its first dedicated cardiac hospital
The Victorian Heart Hospital by Conrad Gargett plus Wardle has won The Health and Wellbeing Space at the 2023 INDE.Awards. It sets a new design agenda where patient and staff wellbeing is central to function and form.
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BLP appointed lead architect for Queensland’s Bundaberg Hospital
Billard Leece Partnership will lead the architectural design of Queensland’s new Bundaberg Hospital, tipped to be a significant step forward in the state’s health infrastructure development.
Ideas
“No longer business as usual”: A periscopic view of our cities’ futures
INDESIGN Magazine’s 90th edition, The ‘City Futures’ Issue, is almost here! We speak with Tim Williams, cities practice lead at Grimshaw about the complex tensions our cities face in this post-pandemic, climate-critical era of globalised living.
NSW
Welcome to Hospital Street: BLP realises Campbelltown award-winning expansion
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) award-winning integrated design.
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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.
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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.
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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.
CPD
Spaces For Healing- Design Considerations for Walls & Ceilings in Healthcare Environments
Produced by Gyprock
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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.
Ideas
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.
Ideas
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.
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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.
Articles
Humanising healthcare interiors
KE-ZU’s thoughtful furniture solutions help to bring warmth and comfort to healthcare interiors, to improve patient experiences.
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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.
Magazine
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.
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This healthcare unit is made from upcycled shipping containers
Architecture Discipline has done it again! Not only is its latest project a response to need, it also provides a template of health-giving design for the future.
Articles
Safe, clean healthcare fit outs that stand the test of time
Healthcare projects present specifiers with a particularly strong set of requirements, most notably around standards of hygiene and durability. Austaron Surfaces has just the products to satisfy these requirements.
News
The pared back luxury of Eden Health Retreat
Collectivus creates an immersive wellness escape at Eden Health Retreat with luxury cabins that celebrate a natural material palette and spectacular views.
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Resting the Case for Ageing in Place, at Scale
Greenway Views, designed by Gray Puksand for LDK Healthcare and Cromwell Property, rewrites the book on design for aged care – and it strikes a chord.
Articles
Antimicrobial surfaces from Staron: A solution to cross-infection
From Austaron surfaces comes the Staron® Evermoin®, improving upon the original Staron® surface is versatile and ultra hygienic, a gamechanging surface solution for healthcare workplaces.
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Healthy horizons: Perth Children’s Hospital
Frightening or fascinating? Perth Children’s Hospital takes the nightmare out of hospital visits, inviting curiosity and play into its life-changing spaces.
People
Meet Natalie Busch – HASSELL’s new principal
The newly appointed principal at HASSELL believes that designers have a social responsibility to create sustainable, healthy places for the next generation.
Articles
Walkway to Wellness: Arrow Metal at Gosford Hospital
It is a truth universally acknowledged that nobody ever ‘enjoys’ getting sick. However, it is equally true – but perhaps less often acknowledged – that the future of healthcare architecture in Australia is a bright and exciting one.
People
Indesign Luminary: Jon Johannsen
Jon Johannsen’s career has been about buildings and their context. He is led by the conviction that liveable communities are diverse in their demographic engagement. This is his story.
People
Bates Smart’s Mark Healey on normalising the clinical environment
Bates Smart studio director Mark Healey has carved out a unique CV having worked on some of Australia’s best healthcare projects, alongside multi-res and commercial work. Here he opens up about the latest design thinking behind our changing healthcare landscape.
News
Fresh off the press… Indesign #75 ‘Healthcare & Wellness’ out now!
The latest issue of Indesign magazine has hit newsstands, this time focusing on the growing sector of ‘Healthcare & Wellbeing’. Tying it all together is a regionality that we’re exploring in new ways.
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Just what the doctor ordered: Coastal Neurosurgery by Ricci Bloch Architecture + Interiors
Bucking the status quo in healthcare, Coastal Neurosurgery is a home-like environment designed for patients’ wellbeing.
Ideas
What is health tourism?
While most travellers search for the ultimate destination, others search for the ultimate journey. In one of Bangkok’s busiest transport hubs, Orbit Design Studio augments the experience of being ‘in-transit’ with a premium mind-body fitness centre. Transience has never felt so good.
People
5 mins with Charlotte Ruben of White Arkitekter
Charlotte Ruben, partner at Swedish firm White Arkitekter, is at the forefront of the new generation of hospital design. Ruben shares her insights into this growing sector and how a hospital ecosystem comes together.
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A Children’s Hospice Designed For Legacy
Hummingbird House is a state-of-the-art facility, designed by ThomsonAdsett, which helps families affected by life-limiting illness. We take a look at how this type of space advocates for legacy and resilience and how design is critical to its success.
Dissections
Karratha Central Healthcare by CODA Studio/Cox Architecture
Designers are working in an exciting health and aged-care climate where the very definitions of the sectors are being questioned, challenged and redefined. Cox Architecture’s (formerly CODA Studios) joyous and uplifting design of Karratha Central Healthcare is a strong example of a multi-dimensional health facility providing medical services and training opportunities that contribute to the improved health and wellbeing of the regional community.
Dissections
Bendigo Hospital by Bates Smart & Silver Thomas Hanley
The oft-opposing principles of medical-based thinking and evidence-based design have long been a sticking point for healthcare designers. The new Bendigo Hospital by Bates Smart and Silver Thomas Hanley shows us they need not be mutually exclusive. There is a sweet-spot to be found. It just takes an intelligent and intuitive design touch.
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The Creativity of Caring: Tonya Hinde of Billard Leece Partnership
You might assume that creativity takes a back seat to science and hard facts in the design of health and aged-care spaces, but according to Tonya Hinde, it’s the most creative sector she’s worked in. Here’s why.
Articles
Is Design Too Important To Leave To You, The Designers?
Let’s ask the best design minds currently working in the most important sector … health.
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It’s Cool To (Design) Care: Jewish Care Victoria by JCBA
With fluid and embracing forms, the Coppel & Piekarski Family Disability Respite Centre is a responsive, accessible and sensitive building that reflects the client’s approach to caregiving.
Articles
Doctor! Doctor! … Give me the news.
An in-depth look at what A+D has learned from medical history and the relationship between people and the spaces they occupy.