Hospital design still struggling with humanizing architecture

ATLANTA: Hospital architecture and design is still struggling with humanism and the concept of community.

The hospital community remains captive to high-tech medical equipment and joint research projects. Read More »

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Affordable housing planned for high-rise real estate

CHICAGO: An application is currently being prepared to create 20 per cent of a 1,700 unit development as ‘affordable housing’.

But an unofficial pre-approach by the developer has been knocked back. He has been told to go away and come back with Read More »

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Tide turning on aged harvesting compounds concept

ATLANTA: At the very moment in time, when Hogeway Village thought it could finally claim to be at the cutting-edge of dementia care, it finds itself overtaken by a horde of baby boomers (the oldest of whom is now in their seventieth year) hell-bent on Read More »

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Boomer housing research conclusions questioned

NEW YORK: A housing research report (Moen) which claims 42 percent of boomers plan to move, and 68 percent of that segment plan to downsize, is contradicted by NAHB research that claims 85 percent will hang on to their primary residence and spend money on Read More »

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