Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Yawkee Center for Cancer Care (under construction)
Thea and James Stoneman Healing Garden
Boston, MA, USA
Click here to read an article about the healing garden. Here is an excerpt from the article about the garden:
The Thea and James Stoneman Healing Garden, made possible by a gift from the James M. Stoneman Charitable Fund, will be a two-story green oasis located on the third floor of the new facility on the corner of Jimmy Fund Way and Brookline Avenue.
This indoor sanctuary, which will overlook Joslin Park, will consist of pathways with garden seating, natural stone walls, colorful flowers that change seasonally, and a canopy of tall greenery that envelopes visitors in a lush, serene environment.
"Our patients and families requested a living healing garden, but with a limited outdoor landscape, it wasn't realistic," says Wendy Gettleman, Dana-Farber's senior director of Planning, Design, and Construction. "So we did the next best thing and put it inside."
The healing garden will also contain a 20-by-28-foot glass conservatory without plants, so immune-compromised patients can enjoy the surrounding elements free of allergen or health concerns.
Demelza House Children's Hospice
Demelza Garden
Kent, UK
Sight, smell, even taste are the normal senses associated with gardens but it is hearing that is accentuated in this garden, designed for the children's hospice charity Demelza. Gentle, musical sounds infiltrate the garden, reflecting the importance of music in bringing happiness into the lives of terminally ill children. A water harp plays quietly in one corner: this metal structure set in a low pool is strung with stainless steel wires, which create soothing sounds as water plays down them. A Japanese Demelza sui-kin-kutsu, an underground water chamber, introduces an invisible, mysterious echoing sound, while aluminium chimes give children the opportunity to make their own music. Silver Betula pendula, inspired by a grove at Merriments Gardens in East Sussex, is underplanted with a colour scheme of cool blues and greens. This gradually develops in intensity until it finally explodes in a riot of bright oranges, yellows and reds using plants such as new red Iris 'County Town Red' and Geum 'Princess Juliana'.
Devon Oaks
Westlake, OH, USA
Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)
Alzheimer's garden
Designer: Design for Generations, LLC
Dixie Regional Medical Center (Intermountain Healthcare)
St. George, Utah, USA
For images, see the designer's website: Anshen+Allen Architects
Don and Marilyn Anderson Hospice Care Center
Madison, WI, USA
Landscape and healing gardens
Designer: Zimmerman Architectural Studios
Dorothy S. O'Brien Center
Seattle, WA, USA
Cancer
University of Washington design/build class
Cancerlifeline.org
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duke University
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Durham, NC, USA
Healing garden - The Gardens are open every day without charge. Free public tours are available most weeks, and private docent-led tours may be arranged for a nominal fee. For more information and scheduling tours, call the Gardens’ office at (919) 684-3698
www.cancer.duke.edu
Duncaster Wellness & Fitness Center
Bloomfield, CT, USA
Designer: Dirtworks, PC Landscape Architecture
Visit the designer's website for more informaiton
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