Ideas

Our design process guides us to plan for today’s requirements and prepare for tomorrow’s unknowns. Here we pull back the curtain on our practice to share that process with you.

Delivering a Curated Care Experience

Improving the patient experience demands a personalized care model. By focusing on flexible delivery, clinician coordination, and comprehensive offerings, healthcare providers can deliver a tailored approach that treats each patient as a unique and whole individual.

Methodology
April 08, 2025

Embracing the Whole Person: Designing a Way Forward for Behavioral Healthcare

Well-designed places can further decrease the stigma of mental health challenges, and support individual patients and their caregivers, support healthcare practitioners and staff, and ultimately strengthen whole communities.

March 27, 2025

Designing for Resilience Puts Clients Ahead of the Curve

As architects and designers, we have a responsibility to leverage resilient design principles to support healthy and sustainable communities and our clients for the long-term.

 

Sustainability
March 03, 2025

Two ZGF Design Leaders Inducted into AIA College of Fellows

Congratulations to ZGF Partner Kathy Berg and Principal Arathi Gowda for their induction into the prestigious AIA College of Fellows, Class of 2025. 

News
February 13, 2025

Imagining a City of Wood with New York Magazine

News
January 08, 2025

Building Champions: Designing Sports Facilities That Elevate Performance, Culture, and Community

Methodology
December 02, 2024

Sourcing Healthy, Cost-Neutral Materials: A Rural Hospital Makes the Case

Jefferson Healthcare is undergoing a 56,000 SF modernization and expansion that will transform patient care while providing a model for sustainability and health equity.

Sustainability
November 18, 2024

Breaking Down the Wood Supply Chain for PDX Airport

Portland International Airport is the first major airport in the U.S. with a mass timber roof. Here's how we sourced wood locally and, as much wood as possible, from ecologically managed forests

Sustainability
November 14, 2024

Is the Hospital of the Future Made of Mass Timber?

Explore strategies and solutions for implementing mass timber in healthcare settings to reduce embodied carbon, while improving outcomes for patients and staff. 

Research and Tools
October 14, 2024

Lessons Learned in Prefabrication at PDX Airport

The main terminal expansion at Portland International Airport (PDX) is a case study in effective prefabrication and modular construction strategies.

Sustainability
August 14, 2024

Renovating the PDX Airport in Place

The average American airport terminal is over 40 years old and typically the result of decades of upgrades and expansions stitched together over time. Now, many of these facilities are being faced with a crucial decision: whether to continue to grow in place or to start over and relocate to new facilities able to accommodate future demands.

Sustainability
August 14, 2024