April 4, 2005—Poor design and location of hospitals could condemn future generations to use health facilities that have not reached their potential, according to CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
The warning appears in Design Reviewed 2, the annual report from CABE that looks at the most noteworthy projects seen by its Design Review Panel in the last year. The report states that the majority of hospitals seen by the panel are not adequately informed by a study of the cities in which they will be built.
It goes on to say that the demands of the clinical brief tend to outweigh the considerations of how a hospital looks and feels on the inside and how it will affect the existing town and its people on the outside, to the detriment of the finished building, according to CABE.
CABE, a non-departmental public body set up by the government in 1999, champions the creation of great buildings and public spaces. To see Design Reviewed 2, visit the CABE Web site.
