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The Brook is a new specialist inpatient facility at Langdon Hospital, designed to provide dignified care for adults with a learning disability and/or autism whose complex needs cannot be met in mainstream services. The design supports recovery by creating an environment that feels safe and familiar and acknowledges the therapeutic power of strong connections with

Water Meadow View (WMV) is Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust’s new £30-million inpatient unit for adults with learning disabilities, set in the picturesque landscape of Guild Park, Lancashire. WMV provides a safe, modern and therapeutic environment for adults aged 18 and over who are experiencing mental health challenges and require inpatient care.  Design

The Brook is a new specialist inpatient facility at Langdon Hospital, designed to provide dignified care for adults with a learning disability and/or autism whose complex needs cannot be met in mainstream services. The design supports recovery by creating an environment that feels safe and familiar and acknowledges the therapeutic power of strong connections with

The Bronte Ward sensory room at the Bluestone Unit, Craigavon Area Hospital represents an innovative and collaborative design solution that enhances recovery within an inpatient mental health environment. The project was developed to address a critical challenge faced by staff on the ward – how to support patients experiencing acute distress in a way that

The sensory room within the Emergency Department at Causeway Hospital represents an innovative design intervention that enhances patient wellbeing and recovery within one of the most demanding environments in healthcare. Emergency Departments are fast-paced, high-pressure settings characterised by noise, bright lighting, crowded waiting areas and constant activity. While these environments are designed to support urgent

Langtree Care Home, completed in May 2025 in Standish, Greater Manchester, demonstrates how architecture can deliver a therapeutic, future-ready environment for people living with dementia. Designed by Alessandro Caruso Architecture and Interiors Ltd (ACA) for Millennium Care Group, the £6m, 52-bedroom specialist EMI nursing home forms the final component of the established Standish Care Village.

This project demonstrates how trauma-informed environmental design, collaborative clinical leadership, and a culture of relational care transformed the trajectory of a young autistic man who had spent a significant period of his adolescent life in seclusion. When we were approached by a Trust in Northern Ireland, the expectation was not recovery – it was containment.

The Client Mental health facilities are too often unwieldy, impersonal and intimidating. This 36,000sf center was designed to prove otherwise. GRAND Mental Health (GRAND) is a high-performing nonprofit organization that aspires to “change the course of communities” in Oklahoma by improving mental health care for its citizens. Its Stillwater center draws service users from the

The Kem and Carolyn Gardner Crisis Center was created for individuals facing mental health crisis, providing support to stabilize and de-escalate. It bridges a gap between community and behavioral health systems for recovery. This facility is an important step in offering a broad spectrum of mental and behavioral health services in the South Salt Lake

Access to the outdoors is fundamental to the human experience. We encounter sunlight, rain, wind, views and vistas on a constant basis. We play outside, we exercise, we work. We have also long known the benefit of this access and exposure for clinical environments, and yet frequently within secure mental and behavioral health spaces it