hospital design
Project
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.
Project
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.
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.
Project
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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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.
Events
“Truth, beauty and justice”: On architecture and politics with Elizabeth Farrelly
Timothy Alouani-Roby spoke to the prominent Sydney-based author and architecture commentator about her experiences running for office and the place of architects in politics.
Events
Victorian Heart Hospital wins The Health and Wellbeing Space at 2023 INDE.Awards
The winner of The Health and Wellbeing Space category changes lives in all the right ways and is a paragon of best practice design for the future.
Project
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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Mount Pleasant Wines in most pleasant surroundings
With touches of Australian architectural vernacular, Luchetti Krelle has created a rustically charming winery experience fit for today. The design stuns from the inside and out.
Ideas
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.
Project
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.
News
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.
News
With over 2000 registrations in 72 hours our first Webinar is going to be a big one!
We’re about to launch our new Webinar series with ‘Working and our Health’. With over 2000 people registering for the series in the first 72 hours, this is an opening you don’t want to miss!
Ideas
Will you take the ten day hospital challenge?
Say what you will about the administration of China, they sure know how to address a lack of medical facilities in the face of a crisis.
Ideas
Will you take the ten day hospital challenge?
Say what you will about the administration of China, they sure know how to address a lack of medical facilities in the face of a crisis.
Project
Christchurch catalyst
For resurgent Christchurch, Tūranga is reinventing how a central library can ignite its cultural and social capital in a city still rebuilding.
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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.
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.
Articles
Staron’s healthy surfaces
Healing begins with a patient’s environment, and that includes clean, healthy surfaces. The team at Staron offer a warm, soft and soothing-to-the-skin surface solution for this purpose.
Articles
The importance of healthy surfaces in design
Healing begins with a patient’s environment, and that includes clean, healthy surfaces. The team at Staron offer a warm, soft and soothing-to-the-skin surface solution for this purpose.
Project
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.
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.
Ideas
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.