Dezeen Book of Ideas: Recovery Lounge by Priestmangoode
A hospital lounge for recovering patients is the next extract chosen by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs from our Book of Ideas. More
A hospital lounge for recovering patients is the next extract chosen by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs from our Book of Ideas. More
Square openings form a grid of tiny windows through the screens of this clinic for hair restoration and removal in Tokyo by Japanese studio KORI architecture office and architect Arimoto Yushiro (+ slideshow). More
Here are the first images of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that New York architect Steven Holl is designing for St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. More
When Royal College of Art graduate Hotzu River Cheng found out that cooking fumes were a bigger cause of lung cancer than cigarettes among Chinese women, he set out to design a better extractor fan to protect them. More
Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have won a competition to design a children's hospital and a teaching/research centre in Zurich, Switzerland. More
Slideshow: architects Cristian Panaite and Katrien Devreese have inserted a stark, geometric doctor's surgery into a row of traditional brick houses in a quiet village in rural Belgium. More
Milan 2012: London designers Studio Toogood will create a "hospital for the senses" at MOST in Milan next month as an antidote to the hustle and bustle of the furniture fair. More
Australian architects Demaine Partnership have completed a marble-fronted dental surgery in Victoria. More
Slideshow: Danish studio NORD Architects have completed a cancer care centre in Copenhagen shaped like a cluster of houses. More
You can’t miss this bright red psychiatric centre in Spain, where the differently pitched roofs are meant to reveal how much mental activity takes place in each room. More
San Francisco designer Yves Behar of fuseproject has designed a range of pill containers for new brand Sabi, launched today. More
The latest Maggie’s cancer care centre to complete is a concrete spiral in southwest Wales. More
Designer Kiseung Lee of Helsinki wants people to fill stockings with more vital gifts this Christmas: donations to the blood bank. More
Electronics brand Jawbone have launched a wristband by San Francisco designer Yves Behar that monitors your every move then tells you what to do. More
Architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith discuss their designs for the latest Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Nottingham, UK, in this movie by filmmakers Living Projects. More
British architect Piers Gough of CZWG and fashion designer Paul Smith have completed the latest Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Nottingham, UK. More
Coinciding with the OMA retrospective opening at the Barbican in London this week, here are some photos of the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that the firm just completed in Glasgow. More
Berlin designer Ronen Kadushin has made a conceptual, open-source, contraceptive intrauterine device from a one-cent coin. More
Square box windows provide seating areas at a hospital unit in Bath, UK, for sick and premature babies. More
Waiting rooms inside this red-striped health centre by architects Miguel Barahona and Luis Castillo overlook the Sierra de Gardor mountains in southern Spain. More