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NURSING UNITS EVOLVE Acute-care units in U.S. hospitals face challenges: low satisfaction levels for patients and caregivers, ineffective materials flow, lack of storage, inefficient use of beds, and a shortage of nurses, technicians, and other health workers. Reduced reimbursements don't help, nor does a diminishing supply of operational capital. To top things off, design has often magnified these problems, when it should be helping to alleviate them. But how? What should the acute-care unit of the future look like?
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THE BLACKER HOUSE OF GREENE & GREENE In the Blacker House of 1907, architects Charles and Henry Greene developed and brought forward the full thrust of their new and highly refined timber style to create what became the largest and most elaborate of their wooden masterworks.
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More Building Culture Signs of Progress, Pilgrimage at WTC Site — Chicago Trib une, 2001.1221Architects Ask, 'What Did I Do to Cause This?' — Los Angeles Timesat Yahoo News, 2001.1221 From Virginia to Louisiana, a Building Boom for Museums — New York Times, 2001.1220 (registration required) Exhibition on the Architecture of Apolodro, the Damascene Opened In Damascus — Arabic News, 2001.1220 Pennsylvania Avenue's Dazzling Power Play — Washington Post, 2001.1220 Restored 1895 BPL Building Rates 2001 Architecture Prize — Boston Globe, 2001.1220 What Might Have Been the Perfect Solution — F.A.Z., 2001.1220 Art Center Picks Site in Pasadena as New Home — Los Angeles Times, 2001.1218 Seven to Save 2001 — Preservation League of New York State press release, 2001.1218 Slowing Profits Could Force Architectural Industry Consolidation — Tofias press release, 2001.1218 Views on a Cityscape in Continuous Flux — Japan Times, 2001.1219 Design Limits Access — Baltimore Sun, 2001.1219 Farrell and HOK Win Dome Deal — Architects' Journal, 2001.1219 UK Architects Vote Frank Lloyd Wright as Biggest Influence — Architects' Journal, 2001.1219 EU Architects Draw Up New Construction Project — F.A.Z., 2001.1219 Former Fayette Architect Still Loves Working at 100 — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2001.1218 Sydney Looks to Solve its "Worst Urban Nightmare" — Architects' Journal, 2001.1218 Announcement Due on the Dome — Architects' Journal, 2001.1218 40 Per Cent Of U.K. Architects Say "Don't Rebuild the World Trade Center Towers" — Architects' Journal, 2001.1217 Verizon Hall: Sorry, Wrong Timbre — Washington Post, 2001.1217
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