Parkin is delighted to have worked on the Child & Youth Mental Health Program (“CYMH”) at RVH.  Planning and designing for mental health hospitals and units within hospitals is one of our key areas of expertise. Commenting on unique challenges in creating safe spaces for mental health units, Parkin VP and CYMH project architect says:
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Creating warm and welcoming inpatient mental health units is today’s norm.  To support mental health awareness, Parkin Principal, Lynne Wilson Orr comments on her experience in planning and designing a mental health facility for children and adolescents. “As researchers are developing a greater understanding of when and how fast specific areas of children’s brains develop,
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This RVH project brings advanced cardiac care to the citizens of Simcoe Muskoka. The hospital has just opened a new Cardiac Care Interventional Suite (“CCIS”), constructed within existing shelled space.  Parkin provided full architectural services for design, planning and construction of a top-grade, two-room cardiac catheterization suite with 18 pre/post care bays and a full
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Parkin Architects Limited was engaged by the University of Toronto to redesign the research labs and support spaces, as well as the morgue and anatomy teaching labs, in a multi-million dollar retrofit in the Medical Sciences Building. The first of several phases is complete and the researchers have moved back into bright, energy efficient and
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On  January 6, 2018, ErinoakKids opened its doors to the public for a preview walkthrough of its three new facilities in Brampton, Mississauga and Oakville. These warm and welcoming new buildings were carefully planned to create new opportunities for clients, their families, and therapists to learn and develop in facilities that will support them on
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