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Medicine by Design

WEBThe project Medicine by Design, now under way at the McGill University School of Architecture, is set up to document contemporary architectural responses to changing needs in the Canadian health care system. It is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study the planning and construction of hospitals since 1945, to analyze the

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Anishnawbe Health Toronto breaks ground on Ontario’s first …

WEBThe four-storey, 45,000-square-foot Anishnawbe Health Toronto Community Health Centre will offer holistic health programs and services that integrate Indigenous and Western approaches. The construction of the Health Centre will be funded by the Ministry of Health with community support from donors through Anishnawbe Health Foundation.

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How will we approach the health of our communities and our …

WEBTrue environmental and social wellbeing – and ultimately the health of the planet and people – will only be achieved if we mobilize our collective efforts, encourage radical monitoring and transparency and harness data sets as a tool for common good and human survival. Lisa Bate is Principal and Global Sustainability Lead at B+H.

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It’s not if, but when: Designing healthcare spaces that support

WEBBy Maria Ionescu On Mar 25, 2020. In 2003, the small city-state of Singapore was one of the hardest hit by the SARS epidemic. Of 238 cases, 33 people lost their lives—40% were healthcare workers. This left a deep and lasting impression, with Singapore taking serious steps to be better prepared for “the next big one.”.

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Taking down the walls around mental health care

WEBThe Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world’s leading research centres in its field. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and

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Scarborough Academy of Medicine and Integrated Health at the …

WEBPhoto courtesy of Diamond Schmitt and MVRDV. These amenities sit on either side of a five-storey atrium that opens up towards the exterior and creates a new building at the gateway of the campus wrapped in a façade of integrated solar panels that help to power the building.

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Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness tops off

WEBThe Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness recently reached a topping-off milestone in its construction. The 585,000-square-foot ambulatory care clinic designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects in collaboration with RTKL Canada will be part of the William Osler Health System. The Centre in Brampton, Ontario will …

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Stantec to design new expansion for Trillium Health Partners’ …

WEBStantec has been selected as the prime consultant to provide architectural, interior design, and building and civil engineering services for the new Queensway Health Centre. Part of Trillium Health Partners (THP), the nine-story, 600,000-square-foot patient tower will offer over 350 beds in a modern, dedicated centre for complex care and …

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Women and Newborn Hospital

WEBThe Women and Newborn Hospital will replace the existing Women’s Pavilion at the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) campus constructed over 60 years ago. The 173-bed facility has a floor area of 37,000 square metres and is designed with the patient and family in mind. The building is a five-storey structure above one level of underground parking

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Green buildings can boost productivity, well-being and health of …

WEBGreen workplaces meet all the criteria of the “triple bottom line,” summarized as “people, planet and profit.”. These improve the health and well-being of people, improve energy efficiency and boost productivity. Green infrastructure has clear climate benefits too. A study by the Green Building Council of Australia found that by adding

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Toronto-Dominion Centre tower achieves Gold certification under …

WEBToronto-Dominion Centre’s 222 Bay St. tower has achieved a Gold level certification under the WELL Building Standard (WELL). Grounded in medical research and administered by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI), WELL is the first standard to integrate human health and wellness in the design, construction, maintenance and

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Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex, Ryerson University, …

WEBConnecting students to the vibrancy of Toronto’s downtown core while bringing together educational and residential functions, Ryerson University’s 28-storey Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex is a new hub of academic excellence and student life. The nearly 300,000-square-foot tower is located on the eastern edge of …

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Enhancing the city's role as a carbon sink: the San Francisco …

WEBTo achieve net-zero by 2040, we need to consider carbon sinks as a means to amplify our efforts to reduce emissions, and we need to measure the efficacy of carbon sinks because good data supports meaningful policy and design. Case in point: the City and County of San Francisco updated its Climate Action Plan in 2021, actively using a data

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CAMH Research Centre

WEBThe Queen Street campus of what is now the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has undergone profound changes since then, and the design of its new Research Centre evokes a much older and very different meaning of the word “asylum”: an oasis for compassion, care, dignity and respect. A reminder from the site’s past contrasts

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Dialog and Stantec tout healthcare innovation at Calgary Cancer …

WEBDialog, Stantec, and PCL are collaborating as one team on the new $1.4 billion cancer care facility and academic centre currently being built in Calgary. Under construction since late 2017, the new Calgary Cancer Centre will become the largest cancer treatment and research facility in Canada and the second largest in North America. …

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Stantec to provide design services for three Canadian healthcare …

WEBThe collaboration of Stantec and Graham Construction is providing design and construction services for the Cariboo Memorial Hospital Redevelopment Project in Williams Lake. The $217.75 million expansion will include an emergency department, medical/surgical inpatient units, maternal care and women’s health, and pharmacy …

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Open Letter to Policy Makers: Architecture—A Critical Ingredient …

WEBHistory instructs, and more specifically, Florence Nightingale demonstrated that the built environment had more of an effect on wounded soldiers than their initial wounds. ( 1) We argue that the built environment is a critical part of pandemic solutions and emergency preparedness. Most policy makers believe that any enclosed space may …

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DIALOG and Two Row Architect Reveal Seneca College Health

WEBDIALOG in partnership with Two Row Architect has been selected to work with Seneca College on the pre-design of a new Health & Wellness Centre. Drawing inspiration from the medicine wheel, the Health and Wellness Centre will be a destination for students and employees to support their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual …

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