Health care facilities

HED designed the St. Joseph’s Judy Dow Alexander Cancer Center Addition located in Ypsilanti, Michigan to create more space for the program's expanding needs. This cancer care expansion was designed to provide a space suited for evolving research and education in oncology while also accommodating the facility’s significant patient population expansion in recent years. Serving as a clear landmark on the campus, the glass curtainwall design was created to stand out and provide natural lighting throughout the facility. This design denotes its independent identity while the steel structure and interior brick still seamlessly connect it to the core of the surrounding campus. Upon entry into the main atrium, a large glass skylight p... More

Completed in 2012, the award-winning Centre for Addiction and Mental Health at Village Family Health was designed by ARK Inc. as a premier facility in Toronto’s Liberty Village.   Relocating a team of mental healthcare professionals away from the support, security and comfort of a large urban hospital is an innovative strategy to both increase patient access to healthcare and to de-stigmatize the delivery of these services. The Village Family Health Team integrates mental health services with primary healthcare programs, functioning as a subsidiary to Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Designed by Toronto-based architecture firm ARK Inc., the clinic is an adaptive re-use project that borrows from the... More

The illuminated feature wall casts RGB light onto the primary staircase inside the lobby of this healthcare building, which can be seen from the outside through the full height glass facade. The vertical design of the accent wall emphasizes the height of the space while infusing light into the entrance area and creating visual interest.Twenty-one LED Light Panels form the three dynamic wall features of the lobby, controlled by DMX decoders with signal amplification. The color changing panels create a broad array of colors that fade slowly through the visible color gamut. This is theoretically 16 million colors, which is the product of 255 x 255 x 255 (the range for each channel). The vibrant lighting effect can be set to static colors to su... More

THE FIRST ALZHEIMER’S VILLAGE IN FRANCE The number of people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease are steadily increasing in Europe. Both among the aging part of the population with longer life expectancies, but also for people under 65. A negative development that calls for new approaches to the built environment. Today, nursing homes find it difficult to meet patients gradually changed and with very individual needs. The new Alzheimer’s village in Dax, is the first of its kind in France, designed by NORD Architects in collaboration with the local architects Champagnat & Gregoire Architectes. NORD Architects has over the past 10 years developed buildings that meet current and changing conditions in the healthcare sector with focus on... More

In Amersfoort a beautiful modern hospital has recently been build. Through the use of 5000 m² timber cladding the Meander Medical Centre now has a professional and friendly appearance. Carpenters from Foreco Timber Constructions have mounted a framework on the outer wall to apply the timber cladding of Western Red Cedar. The external cladding received a fire retardant treatment of SafeWood® Select. Unique about this treatment is that it is a maintenance free fire retardant. Since some cladding has a hight of 42 meters this was one of the requirements of timber. More

The project "Dental INN" has been designed by the architect Peter Stasek as a dental facility in form of a therapy-lounge for dental beauty in Viernheim / Germany. The project represents a new concept of interior design for dental practices themed "healing effects of organic shapes and natural structures" and was mainly developed for Dr Bergmann, an international accredited implant dentist. In addition to dental treatments such as veneers and bleaching, Dr Bergmann and his team provide, amongst other things, symposia on implantology for numerous young dental surgeons from Europe, Asia and Africa. The practice has a total area of about 300 sqm and comprises of 6 treatment rooms, one sterilization room, one conference room, a patient loung... More