The operational challenge: Hospital renovations must improve the environment while protecting patient care, infection control, circulation, and day-to-day clinical operations throughout construction.

Planning under pressure: RKTB Architects explains how additions, circulation, accessibility, community use, and indoor environmental quality can help constrained urban campuses function better.

Signals from Milan: Longevity, material integrity, computational craft, sustainability, and less-visible technology reveal where commercial interiors may be headed next.

Beyond occupancy: Perkins Eastman makes the case for treating the office as infrastructure for talent, culture, collaboration, and long-term organizational value.

Catch up on three popular episodes exploring campus identity, bio-based materials, and acoustics.

• Can Campus Design Strengthen Higher Ed’s Value?

• Decode the Language of Bio-Based Materials

• Why Acoustics Belongs at the Start of Design

What Lauren loves: Wanderlust pairs velvet’s soft, warm hand with 100,000 double rubs, bleach cleanability, stain resistance, and 18 color options for commercial interiors.

Build the surface: Smooth and relief pieces, two modular formats, and 10 colors let designers vary texture, transitions, and interaction with light across ceramic walls.

Designed to age well: Seven woven textiles draw on patinated metals, figured woods, and hand-blown glass for layered contract palettes rooted in craft and longevity.

Color with a purpose: Configurable white and color modes give healthcare designers another tool for wayfinding, pediatric environments, patient rooms, corridors, and nurses’ stations.