Anishnawbe Health Toronto breaks ground on Ontario’s first Indigenous Hub
On National Indigenous Peoples Day, the Indigenous community in Toronto, with its allies and partners, celebrate the groundbreaking on Ontario’s first…
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Stantec to provide design services for three Canadian healthcare projects
Stantec has been selected to provide design services for the Cariboo Memorial Hospital in British Columbia, Prince Albert Victoria Hospital in northern…
Stantec and KPMB to renovate SickKids campus
The joint venture of Stantec and KPMB Architects is providing architectural design services for the planning phase of The Hospital for Sick Children’s…
Pandemic effect: Hospital design
TEXT Michel Broz, Partner, Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes
Planning new hospital facilities is a long-term process, sometimes spanning more than a decade.…
Pandemic effect: Team structure
TEXT Jason-Emery Groen, Design Director, HDR
What can COVID-19 teach architecture firms about the optimal structure of design teams? The pandemic swiftly…
Citizen Care Pod Corporation introduces a New COVID-19 Smart Screening and Testing…
A multi-disciplinary team led by Citizen Care Pod Corporation, in collaboration with WZMH Architects, PCL Construction, Insight Enterprises and Microsoft, has…
Copper is great at killing superbugs – so why don’t hospitals use it?
Stainless steel is the metal of choice in hospitals.
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Fantasilandia in Chile, one of Latin America’s largest theme parks, has replaced its most…
How will we approach the health of our communities and our planet after COVID-19?
As the world faces one of the worst pandemics in recent memory, we now make conscious, everyday decisions that immediately protect our health. Stories…
Editorial: Building Capacity
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a few construction sites in Canada are ramping up: those that expand the capacity of the healthcare system.
The…
Farrow Partners develops Grip Timber CLT blocks for quick-assembly ICU wards
Canadian-based Nucap Industries and Farrow Partners has developed a state-of-the-art CLT building block that can be rapidly assembled into temporary…
WZMH’s Response to COVID-19: Portable Virus Testing Centres
Since early April, WZMH Architects has been working alongside Quasar Consulting Group, Loring Consulting Engineers Inc., Stephenson Engineering Ltd, PCL…
PARTISANS and Puncture design studio launch Canadian COVID Creators Network
As COVID-19 continues its transmission around the world, there is a severe and mounting disruption to the global supply of personal protective equipment…
Q&A: UBC researchers warn of dangers of air pollution during COVID-19…
With all attention on COVID-19 and concerns about the capacity of our health care system to cope, emphasis has rightly been placed on social distancing,…
Pandemic preparedness: How hospitals can adapt buildings to address worst-case…
I spend much of my life thinking about hospital design. And these days, with the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), I’m sure many people around the world…
Urgent call for 3D-printed PPE
Are you an architect, researcher, or firm with access to a 3D printer?
Michael Garron hospital is calling on the 3D printing community to create visor frames…
It’s not if, but when: Designing healthcare spaces that support pandemic response
What can we learn from Singapore’s response to COVID-19? How does it impact the next generation of hospitals?