Simplicity is the tail wagging a s...

Simplicity is the tail wagging a self-same complex dog at the Carl J Shapiro Clinical Center in Boston, a $170 million facility that consolidates the outpatient services of the neighboring Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

The objective was to strip the patient visit of lengthy unwieldy corridors and bureaucratic confused noise "so that users felt comfortable in times of movement, scale and the number of populace they encountered on their way to seeing the doctor," said Martha Rothman, principal with Rothman Partners, Boston, the project's lead architect and undivided of three ...