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Health and Healing: Sechelt Hospital Expansion, …

WebPart of the scheme’s surety is the consequence of a unique, highly participatory design process. The hospital marks the first new build for which Vancouver Coastal Health

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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 …

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Governor General's Medal Winner: Bridgepoint Active Healthcare

WebThere are 464 vertical windows—one for each patient. Bridgepoint Health is the first hospital in Toronto to be LEED Silver-certified. The building envelope incorporates durable and …

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Healthy Outcomes: Post-Occupancy Study, Bridgepoint Active …

WebPhoto by Nic Lehoux. In 2013, I joined experimental social psychologist Dr. Celeste Alvaro to conduct a post-occupancy study of Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, a complex care …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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CannonDesign + NEUF architect(e)s unveil details of healthcare

WebAmphitheater set in the Esplanade Jardin. Photo credit: CannonDesign + NEUF architect(e)s. CannonDesign + NEUF architect(e)s have unveiled details of nearly a …

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A spotlight on ten Indigenous architects and designers

WebKelly Edzerza-Bapty is the founder of Obsidian Architecture. Obsidian Architecture founder Kelly Edzerza-Bapty is rethinking typical ways of making architecture. Her Indigenous …

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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. …

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What’s the future of university campuses

WebWhen June 21 marked 100 days since universities collectively flipped to remote learning, I completed a qualitative analysis of the suddenly-virtual classroom based on the …

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“Keekagin, the thing you look for to steer when you are lost”: …

WebKeekagin, which translates from Anishnaabemowin as “the thing you look for to steer when you are lost,” will support community members recently released from prison to transition …

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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 …

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Humber River Hospital by HDR achieves LEED Gold certification

WebHumber River Hospital and its project partners have announced the facility’s achievement of LEED Gold certification through the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC). “We …

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