healthcare design
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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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A new front door for paediatric care at Westmead
Designed by Billard Leece Partnership, the Wattle Building brings expanded clinical services together with a more legible, family-centred experience of hospital care.
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Where clinical meets calm
In this Specialist Clinic in Southport, Queensland, Polyflor’s MiPlank flooring shifts a clinical feeling environment into somewhere quietly inviting.
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Inside Brisbane Plastic & Cosmetic Surgery’s new flagship clinic
Casey Talbot of Studio Collective discusses the design of a new Brisbane clinic that balances healthcare requirements with a more considered, patient-focused interior.
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A vertical hospital shaped by Country and community
At Peninsula University Hospital, a people-centric design approach brings together healthcare, culture and landscape — redefining the experience of care on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
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Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick opens with integrated care and research by BLP
BLP’s new Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick building brings together paediatric care, family-centred design and Australia’s first Children’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre in a major addition to the Randwick Health & Innovation Precinct.
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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.
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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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A new home for patients seeking life-saving treatment in Christchurch
Designed by Plus Architecture, the Bone Marrow Cancer Trust’s Rānui Apartments have been officially opened by New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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HDR outlines six megatrends for 2024
In a climate of innovation, HDR’s architecture practice has forecasted six trajectories of change that will have a transformative impact over the coming year and redefine city-shaping for the foreseeable future.
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?”
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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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Sarvodaya Hospital: From commercial hub to a super-specialty hospital
Located in one of India’s most densely populated neighbourhoods, Sarvodaya Hospital conceived by Creative Designer Architects, shines a light on repurposing urban infrastructure to improve healthcare accessibility.
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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 colourful Shibori print collection inspired by rich Australasian minerals
An exciting new partnership sees Shibori and Materialised come together to celebrate the wonders of Australasian minerals. Vivid, thoughtful and undeniably stunning, ‘Mineralism’ is a love letter dedicated to the vibrant colours of the Australasian landscape.
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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.
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Spaces For Healing- Design Considerations for Walls & Ceilings in Healthcare Environments
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HUMANSA: A new way to health and wellbeing in the busy city
A new destination in Hong Kong provides all that is required to support health and wellbeing but in oh such a wonderful environment that is anything but ordinary.
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Yin Yang Tai Chi Centre repositions an ancient art for a new generation
Located centrally in Causeway Bay, and designed by ADRO, the Yin Yang Tai Chi Centre draws on everything from Ming Dynasty aesthetics to Bruce Lee movies for inspiration.
Events
Who will be judging INDE.Awards in 2023?
In 2023 the INDE.Awards is joined by an exemplary group of architects and designers who form the official INDE.Awards Jury. We introduce you to your Jury for 2023.
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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.
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McBride Charles Ryan sets the agenda in designing for wellness
Leading by design excellence, the winner of The Health and Wellbeing Space category at the 2022 INDE.Awards is a project that helps serve the rural community in which it is located.
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6 gyms that have had their own glow up
With 6 gyms that span from the corporate, to private, to the futuristic, working out has never felt so good.
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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.
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INDE.Awards 2022 winners announced!
The auditorium was full, the vibe electric and the winners truly outstanding last night at the INDE.Awards Gala. Scroll the Indo Pacific’s most outstanding projects and people, here.
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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.
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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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The art of distraction: Tara Veldman on the future of healthcare design
As breakthroughs in medical science transform the future of patient care, so too does architecture, writes Tara Veldman of BLP.
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Billard Leece Partnership brings ‘a home away from home’ for children across the country
Simultaneously awarded two major healthcare facilities, Billard Leece Partnership, is at the height of wellness 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.
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Mohalla Clinics: Portable healthcare solution in India made from used 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.
Events
Student exhibition explores what our healthcare system could look like in 2030
An exciting exhibition at National Design Centre offers visionary possibilities for distributed healthcare spurred by emerging technologies.
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INDE.Awards entry deadline extended
INDE.Awards entries are extended to 31 March, to give you just that little bit more time to get your award-worthy submissions in. Here’s everything you need to know.
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The 5 things you need to enter INDE.Awards today
We know how much work is involved in pulling together an awards entry. We’ve collated an INDE.Awards entry checklist to help you along.
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It’s a no-brainer! 5 very good reasons to enter INDE.Awards
Have you entered the INDE.Awards yet? Time is of the essence and we’ve given you 5 pretty good reasons to enter in 2022.
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Kudos to Kaunitz Yeung Architecture for international excellence in healthcare design
Kaunitz Yeung Architecture receives global recognition at the 2021 European Healthcare Design Awards, for inspirational design that responds to people and place.
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Unveiling USYD’s new state-of-the-art health facility
Billard Leece Partnership and Diller Scofidio + Renfro have unveiled the fruits of their international design collaboration — the Susan Wakil Health Building at University of Sydney.
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Reinventing the wheel of furniture for aged care
With an increasing need for premium health environments, Workspace offers bespoke and standard furniture options readymade for innovative spaces.
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Extraordinary aged care environments with Workspace
Australian furniture company, Workspace Commercial Furniture brings their expertise in inspiring furniture to the Aged Care and Allied Health environments.
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The Indesign Edit On Healthcare Environments
Welcome to The Indesign Edit: Health Check. In this issue, we explore three of the best health and aged care projects and the outstanding products that contribute to achiever the overall design.
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Australia’s first proton therapy unit for cancer treatment to be built
With the potential to save the lives of thousands, Australia’s first proton therapy unit, designed by Woods Bagot, starts construction in Adelaide next month.
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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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Reimagining clinical space
The architects of the Cabrini Hospital in Melbourne, Australia envisaged wards that feel both polished and hotel-like in quality. But it’s the focus on safety requirements and functional needs of patients and staff that really shines through.
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Healing with dignity
“We must continue to focus on delivering human-centred solutions that encourage a patient’s sense of worth.” Studio director at Bates Smart, Mark Healy on the challenges and responsibilities of healthcare models in the contemporary context.
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Anything but clinical
The architects of Cabrini Malvern’s new Gandel Wing have envisaged wards that feel both polished and hotel-like in quality. But it’s the focus on safety requirements and functional needs of patients and staff that really shines through.
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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.
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Advanced surface solutions for healthcare: Staron Solid Surfaces
At the Frankston Private Hospital, Staron by Austaron Surfaces impresses with its ability to be moulded while also ensuring toxin-free, non-porous and hygienic work surfaces.
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Doing it for the kids: Compass Immunology Clinic by whitewood
Compass Immunology Clinic is a unique concept clinic, one of the first in Australia, where children (and adults) can come for a holistic health approach to treating allergies.
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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.
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Creating revitalising healthcare spaces
At Te Omanga Hospice New Zealand, design takes a more human-centric approach with harmonising carpet designs by Milliken-Ontera.
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Making healthcare design more inclusive
Using design thinking to strike a balance between design essentials and practical considerations within healthcare spaces is a timely and important topic. Join us ahead of FRONT.design Forum as we dig into what it means for the industry.
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A dermatology clinic with a difference by LAANK
Peer behind the calming timber reception and you will be surprised to find bursts of pink, orange and blue. This dermatology clinic breaks with convention to offer a new way of projecting professionalism and comfort.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Australian healthcare design: Just what the Doctor ordered
The transformative potential of design is particularly evident in the context of healthcare design, where it is now being used to create vibrant, uplifting spaces that positively impact patient health and mental states.
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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.
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Health, redefined: Karratha Central Healthcare
Designers are working in an exciting health and aged-care climate where the very definitions of the sectors are being questioned, challenged and redefined. Karratha Central Healthcare by Cox Architecture (formerly CODA Studio) is one such example.
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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.
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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.
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Why don’t we have more Designer Pharmacies?
KTX archiLAB creates the ultimate designer experience for a Japanese dispensing pharmacy, and we are crazy jealous.