Every year, as part of our DESIGN coverage, our jurors participate in a roundtable discussion. This year, they met with DESIGN Editor Maureen Hrehocik to comment on the submissions and discuss trends, innovations, and problem areas noticed in the entries.

Our panel did an extremely conscientious job judging the entries over two full days in Dallas. All of this year’s Citation of Merit

in Everett, Washington, will open a new $460 million, state-of-the-art medical tower, the largest and most comprehensive building project in the hospital’s 150-year history….

These days, there are dozens of ways that people can access information: Webinars, podcasts, magazines like this one, and the Internet, just to name a few. But as easy as all of these types of programs are to access (you never even have to leave your desk chair!), nothing has yet replaced the vitality and energy of a conference. Conferences don’t just share great new ideas and give you access

(GS&P), a multidisciplinary design and consulting firm, announces it was recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in their National Healthcare Design Awards. Awarded in the “Unbuilt” category, the conceptual design of the Seoul National University Hospital Medical Mall in Seoul, South Korea, encompasses 56,000 square meters and includes three floors of outpatient

Many feel that the healthcare building and design industry was born in 1988, when The Center for Health Design’s (CHD) founders convened the First Symposium on Health Care Interior Design at the La Costa Spa & Resort in Carlsbad, California. It was the first time that healthcare executives, design and construction professionals, product manufacturers, and related professionals (about 500

The American Institute of Architects (AIA), Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), and National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) has unveiled the United States National CAD Standard (NCS) Version 4.0, the first update to the Standard since 2005.

The latest edition, designed for owners, architects, engineers, contractors, facility managers, code officials, manufacturers, and suppliers,

, has designed a facility in Lake Success to house one of the world’s most-powerful magnetic resonance imaging devices—the first of its kind in the New York tri-state area.

The recently completed facility, part of 14,300 square feet of new offices for Neurological Associates of Long Island, P.C., houses a powerful Hitachi Oasis Open MRI, as well as a slightly less powerful

The Bilco Company was recently named a Continuing Education Systems (CES) registered provider by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). The company’s first program for AIA and state credit focuses on the latest advances in Horizontal Access Doors, Fire Vents, and Roof Hatches. Participation in the program is free of charge and earns industry professionals one AIA/CES learning unit.

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, one of the 10 largest architecture, planning, engineering, interior design, and program management firms in the United States, is now permanently located at 2000 South Colorado Boulevard, Annex, Suite 300 in Denver, Colorado. The firm opened an office in a temporary location in August 2007. LEO A DALY currently employs more than 1,100 architects, planners, engineers and interior designers in 25

Project Summary

Client: the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (on behalf of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Kings County Hospital Center)

Architecture: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), LLP (Phases I, II, III); RBSD Architects/Lomonaco & Pitts Architects, PC (Phase IV)

Photography: Eduard Hueber/Architectural Photography

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