Picture of health: new medical-facility design | | Photo: Hufton+Crow Can architecture help heal the body and mind? These projects take a holistic approach to the patient experience. | | Health & Care Chairs – Antibacterial materials and a wide range of configurable accessories A hundred years of Italian experience in producing seats and tables. For over twenty years, projects for state-run health facilities, private clinics and residential houses all around the globe. Combining aesthetics, comfort, usability, hygiene, functionality and safety. High-tech materials and the highest level of resistance to bacteria. | | All smiles: dental practices with bite | | Photo: Loop Audiovisual Meet the architects and interiors specialists giving dental patients something to smile about. | | Agma's stainless steel design for hospitals and laboratories Stainless steel combines resistance with design: this important material for hospitals and laboratories is now shaped to become elegant furniture. Agma's modular system allows for the creation of custom work stations for perfect efficiency. | | | | When we consume the earth's precious resources, they should be used as sustainably as possible and then renewed – just like Finnish wood veneer manufacturer CWP does it. | | David Chipperfield’s landmark new Kunsthaus extension in Zurich has an equally imposing new public artwork, created by Swiss contemporary artist Pipilotti Rist. Find out how BURRI public elements, together with numerous project partners, made the bold project a reality. | | LIGHT WORK: REGENT LIGHTING | | Which kind of light is best for working? The one you have to think about least. With LIGHTPAD, Swiss manufacturer REGENT LIGHTING has created a modular system that optimally lights the workspace – whatever the time of day. | | For a new residential project set amid the green meadows of the north-German countryside, interior planners raumideen were presented with a brief that called for a creative lighting concept – so they turned to ARTEMIDE… | | For PEKA-METALL AG, true beauty is more than just a front. | | | MOVING ON UP: GREEN FURNITURE CONCEPT | | Placemaking practitioners GREEN FURNITURE CONCEPT enrich hectic public spaces with harmony and wellbeing. Their latest modular, sustainable seating system, Ascent, combines nature and geometry – resulting in truly enhanced sitting. | | PERFECTLY IMPERFECT: MANUFAKT | | When it comes to the balancing act between preserving traditions and developing new visions, MANUFAKT is a maestro. | | THE OFFICE MANAGER: DATAFLEX | | Dutch office specialist DATAFLEX offers planners and specifiers a range of sustainably manufactured monitor and cable management solutions – modular systems that help to make working spaces not only more efficient but more beautiful, too. | | How to harness the robust, natural qualities of leather while creating furniture that remains elegant, comfortable and highly specifiable? FREIFRAU MANUFAKTUR shows how with its new armchair Grace. | | INTERSTUHL is expanding 50 years of seating expertise to the entire office space with SPLACES – a new, comprehensive service concept for office planning and furnishing. | | | | | Rigshospitalet Hospital North Wing by Link arkitektur + 3XN | | Photo: © Adam Mørk The guiding principles for the design of North Wing of Rigshospitalet Hospital were the well-being and of patients, as well as the needs of healthcare professionals, and the future adaptability of hospital functions. | | Rafael Viñoly Architects is an internationally renowned architectural firm headquartered in New York City. The firm’s diverse, award-winning portfolio of projects spans five continents and its work is marked by sustained structural originality. | | And want to advertise in a future issue? | | | | |