Say Cheese: 5 dental practices with bite
Scritto da Simon Keane-Cowell
Zürich, Svizzera
06.03.18
If you want a stable career, become a dentist. People will always have teeth. And if you want a reliable flow of work as an architect, you could do worse than to design dental practices. Here's a short international survey of five rather toothy new clinics…
01
Studio Dental 2
San Francisco, 2017
Montalba Architects
Natural materials and considered lighting create a spa-like atmosphere at Montalba Architects’ Studio Dental 2 in San Francisco, helping soothe potential patient jitters.
02
Vericat Implantology
Valencia, 2016
Vitale
Spanish studio Vitale’s deployment of rich materials like marble, brass and bamboo for their implantology client in Valencia displaces the sterile language of the traditional dental practice, communicating an altogether more premium value proposition.
03
Dental Office Vallès & Vallès
Barcelona, 2016
YLAB Arquitectos
Dental Office Vallès & Vallès in Barcelona – designed by YLAB Arquitectos – is organised as a continuous, organically formed space, with undulating glazing, converted from two former, adjacent first-floor apartments.
04
Zuhause Beim Zahnarzt
Bruges, 2015
Declerck-Daels Architecten
It’s somehow fitting that a former garage be repurposed as a dental practice. Cars and teeth – both need regular check-ups. This timber-clad boutique clinic in Bruges was designed by Declerck-Daels Architecten with friendliness in mind.
05
Tamura Dental Clinic
Tokyo, 2015
Hiroki Tominaga-Atelier
Accessibility and inclusion take centre-stage at Hiroki Tominaga-Atelier’s Tamura Dental Clinic in Tokyo, a space optimised for both wheelchair users and patients with young children. A textured wooden ceiling provides visual interest while lying horizontal in the dentist’s chair.
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