PAYETTE’s Mollica Manandhar along with Paula Buick wrote an article published in the latest issue of Architecture Boston about hospital design.
“Imagine bright lights, beeping monitors, crowds of strangers and workers filling the corridors. Now add large equipment on wheeled carts, computer screens everywhere, and the voice of overhead paging speakers. […] In fact, the clamor impedes recovery: Rising blood pressure, increased respiratory rates, sleep deprivation and anxiety are well documented in adults overexposed to noise.”
What are your thoughts on hospital design? How can we balance the very specific, technical needs of healthcare facilities with the need to heal the patient?
Photography © PAYETTE, Image by Rachellynn Schoen
Images of the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center healing garden
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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