Health

Amos Goldreich completes refuge for victims of domestic abuse in Israel

May 5, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A secluded garden courtyard surrounded by brick buildings forms The Ada and Tamar De Shalit House, a shelter for victims of domestic violence near Tel-Aviv. London studio Amos Goldreich Architecture worked with local office Jacobs Yaniv Architects to deliver the project, which provides the first purpose-built shelter for the charity No To Violence. The charity was

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Copper screen stretches across front of Memphis ballet school by Archimania

April 30, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

A metal brise-soleil and a sculptural rooftop block allow a new performing arts centre by Tennessee studio Archimania to stand out in a revitalised district in Midtown Memphis. The project, called Ballet Memphis, is situated on a corner site in Overton Square – a neighbourhood that has been rejuvenated in recent years. The building was

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Leth & Gori converts Copenhagen chapel into cancer-care facility with colourful painted joinery

January 20, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Leth & Gori has transformed a 19th-century chapel in Copenhagen into an activity centre for cancer patients, using a material palette influenced by the building’s original painted ceiling. The studio headed by architects Uffe Leth and Karsten Gori was tasked with transforming the chapel into a facility called the Elephant House, which is operated by

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Leth & Gori converts Copenhagen chapel into cancer-care facility with colourful painted joinery

January 20, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Leth & Gori has transformed a 19th-century chapel in Copenhagen into an activity centre for cancer patients, using a material palette influenced by the building’s original painted ceiling. The studio headed by architects Uffe Leth and Karsten Gori was tasked with transforming the chapel into a facility called the Elephant House, which is operated by

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Leth & Gori converts Copenhagen chapel into cancer-care facility with colourful painted joinery

January 20, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Leth & Gori has transformed a 19th-century chapel in Copenhagen into an activity centre for cancer patients, using a material palette influenced by the building’s original painted ceiling. The studio headed by architects Uffe Leth and Karsten Gori was tasked with transforming the chapel into a facility called the Elephant House, which is operated by

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Bulldozer demolishes Frank Lloyd Wright medical centre in Montana

January 12, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Despite major efforts from preservation groups, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lockridge Medical Clinic in Whitefish, Montana, has become the architect’s first intact building to be destroyed in over 40 years. The Lockridge Medical Clinic was bulldozed overnight on 10 January 2018, after nearly a year of campaigning from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy (FLWBC) and

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Bulldozer demolishes Frank Lloyd Wright medical centre in Montana

January 12, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Despite major efforts from preservation groups, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lockridge Medical Clinic in Whitefish, Montana, has become the architect’s first in-tact building to be destroyed in over 40 years. The Lockridge Medical Clinic was bulldozed overnight on 10 January 2018, after nearly a year of campaigning from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy (FLWBC) and

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Cannon Design creates sculptural glass hospital in southern California

January 4, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American firm Cannon Design has largely avoided right angles while designing this medical facility near San Diego, resulting in a building defined by curvilinear forms and surfaces.  The Jacobs Medical Center is located on the University of California San Diego campus in the seaside town of La Jolla. The 245-bed hospital contains speciality centres for

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Steven Holl completes luminous Maggie’s Centre next to Britain’s oldest hospital

December 19, 2017 India Block 0

American architect Steven Holl has unveiled his Maggie’s Centre for cancer patients in London, featuring a facade of translucent white glass dotted with coloured panels. Imagined by New York-based Holl as a “vessel within a vessel within a vessel”, the luminous Maggie’s Barts features a concrete frame, a layer of bamboo wood and a skin of matt

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Geometric forms and embossed details recall historic predecessors at Spanish psychiatric facility

December 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Vaillo+Irigaray Architects has modernised a 19th-century psychiatric centre in the Spanish city of Pamplona by adding a series of structures with gabled profiles that reference the forms of the existing buildings. The project represents the first stage of a masterplan by local studio Vaillo+Irigaray Architects to redevelop the healthcare facility, which occupies a large site with

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