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Bring a different experience in hospital

- Northwestern Memorial: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital is one the top pediatric...

Vertical Healthcare Design

Earlier this week, Douglas King spoke to us about the opportunities and challenges in the emerging field of Vertical Healthcare Design....

Revolutionizing the industry - Skender

We were fortunate enough to have the chance to visit Skender this week. Skender, once called Skender Construction, has rebranded itself...

Green Space - Social Contact - Health Benefits

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829208001172#! Many studies have proven that interaction with green space has...

Holistic Living Center - Midterm Review

Introduction Our Health and Wellness studio project is based on HDR's Focal Point Program, which a mixed-use health campus design. HDR...

Noxious Vapors

Could you imagine living your everyday life in spaces with a lack of fresh air? That sounds suffocating. Good thing that is now something...

Healthcare That Moves

Mobile healthcare is increasingly gaining momentum. Many hospitals have incorporated mobile healthcare within their healthcare system and...

Therapeutic Landscape - Millennium Park

This past week, Professor Worn presented the different theories of Therapeutic Landscapes. While walking through Millennium Park we were...

Millennium Park - Therapeutic Landscape

We walked through Millennium Park yesterday to speculate the landscape with a specific theory (I chose ART). The Attention Restoration...

Ressurecting Arcadian ideals to enhance Public Health

For many of us who know 'Utopia' by Sir Thomas Moore and every Architect who followed his footsteps trying to recreate it, Arcadia might...

Boombox Chicago!

Boombox Chicago is Chicago’s first shipping container pop-up shop created by Latent Design. These photos were taken directly from the...

'The Last leaf' and its restorative nature

“It is the last one,” said Johnsy. “I thought it would surely fall during the night. I heard the wind. It will fall today, and I shall...

Child's Day of Play!

One of our weekly assignments was to visit Millennium Park and document our experience, and reflect on how the park can be a therapeutic...

Mid Review

It was such an excellent experience to have an unusual mid-review last week. We had 20 guests to have lunch with us talking about...

Museums in a Hospital?

Northwestern Memorial: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital http://www.scb.com/project/ann-robert-h-lurie-childrens-hospital/...

Nursing Shortage, is it [still] a thing?

As we have been studying up to take the EDAC exam and become certified, we have come across some interesting findings. With...

Gentrification - The War on Urban Cultures

Recently we had a design pin-up which involved inviting both design as well as healthcare individuals from surrounding firms to come in...

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