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Community
When a Project Changes You: Design for Those in Need
When DesignGroup interior designer Heather Clark joined on as a pro-bono team member to design a new shelter for the homeless, she discovered a profound feeling of pride - and a personal connection to the client’s mission.
Healthcare
The Importance of Community Engagement in Healthcare Design
Healthcare design projects involve countless input from partners and stakeholders. One group that shouldn’t be overlooked: the people who will use the building when it’s complete. Tapping into their needs and experiences can make your next project even more successful.
Healthcare
Planning for the Future of Radiology: A Q-and-A with West Penn Hospital
What started as a series of individual imaging replacements in Pittsburgh’s West Penn Hospital became an opportunity to do much more – and reflect more deeply on patient and visitor experiences.
2020: A Look Back With Pride and Optimism
Hope and Inspiration in a Year No One Expected
Healthcare, Community, Commercial
Insights and Inspiration: Our Five Most-Read Articles of 2020
BIM collaboration. Next-generation workplace design. And the unique melancholy designers feel at the end of a years-long project. We published dozens of original articles in the Big Ideas section of our website last year. Here are the five most popular posts from 2020.
Healthcare
The Power of BIM Partnership: A Conversation with the BIM Managers of the New OSUWMC Tower Project
Building information modeling, or BIM, provides powerful 3D design and review capabilities to any project. When the project is this big, though, it needs to be managed with extra care. In this Q-and-A, BIM managers from DesignGroup and HDR describe their successful collaboration on a massive new OSU Wexner Medical Center project.
Healthcare
Resiliency in Healthcare: Look to Nature. A Q-and-A with Judith Heerwagen
It’s easy to add superficial nature elements to design, indoors and out. Environmental psychologist Dr. Judith Heerwagen advocates for thinking about it much more deeply. DesignGroup’s Chris Haedt spoke with her about biophilic design and how architecture can be improved through an evolutionary, biological perspective.
Education
Climate Change and College Living: Bold Ideas for the Future
A recent competition challenged architects to find creative new ways to improve buildings in a changing climate. Our entry tackled a structure found on almost every college campus. Here’s how we reinvented it.
The View from Home: How Architecture Students Continued to Learn Away from the Studio
Architecture school is all about collaboration and studio culture. What happens when you take all that away? In this Q and A, DesignGroup's newest employees explain the pros and cons of their recent semester — and their ideas for the future.
Sustainability Starts with the Right Materials
The pandemic is a stark reminder that the natural world is always present, always powerful, and must be respected as built environments continue to expand. Here are ways to find healthier products for any project.
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