Architects and Charities Can Make Good Partners, Experts Say
By Nicole WallaceLess than a year out of architecture school, Bryan Bell decided to quit his job at an upscale firm in New York, ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling of Resources disillusioned by the feeling that only the wealthy and powerful had…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Rooftop Garden Offers Sanctuary to Hospital Patients
By Nicole WallaceThe Healing Garden has proven itself as a rooftop oasis at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in downtown Phoenix. Banner Good Samaritan ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling of Resources has done a lot to try to make its facility…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Spaces Designed With Kids in Mind
A California charity seeks to meet the many needs and desires of its youthful clientele as it builds facilitiesThe last seven years have been a blur of planning meetings, architectural drawings, and construction crews for the ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design:…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Creating Comfort From Cold Concrete
By Nicole WallaceWhen Community Housing Partners, a charity in Christiansburg, Va., purchased the Woods at Yorktown apartment complex in ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling of Resources 2001, it recognized that it would take major renovations to make…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Innovative nursing facility uses architecture to give residents privacy, autonomy, and a place to call homeTupelo, Miss. As 10 o’clock approaches, James Johnson is still working on a hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon, ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Aquarium Exhibit Lets Visitors Experience Life Under the Ocean
By Nicole WallaceThe fish came before the architects at the new Georgia Aquarium, which opened in Atlanta in November. At most new facilities, architectural companies are selected first, and the scientists and aquarium ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A…
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Features Editor
Design That Appeals to Kids of All Ages
By Nicole WallaceMister Rogers sparked some major changes in the neighborhood for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. In 1998, more people visited the museum’s exhibit on the popular children’s television program during its first ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and…
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Features Editor
Charities find that good design benefits the people they serveWhen R. Leslie Nichols leads training sessions to help officials think about how to design local Boys & Girls ALSO SEE:Special Report: About Charities and DesignCharities and Design: A Sampling of Resources Clubs, he often asks…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Prize Honors Software for Social-Change Groups
By Nicole WallaceA new prize will honor public-interest software development. The Florence and Frances Family Fund, a donor-advised fund at the Tides Foundation, in San Francisco, is sponsoring what will be an annual competition to honor software programmers who develop open-source software that…
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Features Editor
African Health Charity Wages Online Battle
By Nicole WallaceThe African Medical and Research Foundation is waging war on malaria and turning to the Internet for new recruits. Visitors to the Nairobi health organization’s new SWAT Malaria Web site can learn about the disease’s human toll in sub-Saharan Africa, the obstacles it poses to…
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor