The Hi-Charger for electric vehicles is a 2020 Innovation by Design honoree. A dozen major auto manufacturers are now building electric vehicles, but the charging ports are all over the place. Some companies design on the front of the vehicle, others on the back or side. As Hyundai planned its first public charging stations in Seoul, the company tapped McKinsey to design a more universal charger that could accommodate as many brands as possible. Read Full Story

​With 50,000 students studying more than 200 courses across five physical sites and one virtual campus, South East Queensland’s Griffith University is a large and complex organisation to manage.

The new children’s ward at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston was designed for, and by, patients and their families. It’s a unique challenge to design a place where no one wants to end up. When the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston started making plans several years ago to redesign its children’s ward—a facility where premature babies get ventilated in the intensive care unit and children with cancer endure the slow trauma of a life in treatment—its leaders decided early on that the new building needed a design that was as empathetic as possible to patients and families who would rather be anywhere else. Read Full Story

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Researchers tracked inspection reports of 21,340 Chicago buildings from 2006 through 2018 and found that bedbugs thrive in poorer neighborhoods. The “dramatic resurgence” of bedbugs has not plagued Americans equally, according to a new, creepy-crawly study from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Read Full Story

Hospital buildings add a huge amount to medical bills. Moving care to people’s homes could dramatically reduce those costs. Doctor Bruce Leff is a hospital skeptic. A practicing geriatrician who’s been on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for 25 years, Leff argues that hospitals don’t have their priorities straight. Read Full Story

The Institution continues to climb positions and goes from the top 10 to the 5 with respect to last year and is located in the outstanding group of the best next to universities such as University of Houston, Babson College, Brigham Young University, and The University of Michigan, among others.

So suggests Sweeten Founder Jean Brownhill, who thinks architects can save their industry by building their own platforms. Jean Brownhill is an architect and the founder and CEO of Sweeten , a service that matches people with major renovation projects to general contractors. She developed Sweeten while attending Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design as a Loeb Fellow in 2011 and is one of just 11 African-American female entrepreneurs in the United States to raise more than $1 million in venture capital. Here, she shares what she learned working as an architect at Coach, why architects should build digital platforms, and why creatives should “optimize for their obituary.” Read Full Story

The celebrataed Dutch architect Ben van Berkel has created a chair and dinnerware that are designed to help kids feel like equals in the home. Throughout his career, Dutch architect Ben van Berkel has designed stunning modern buildings, including the Moebius House in the Netherlands and the Singapore University of Architecture and Design . His latest project is at a much smaller scale. He has designed a children’s chair and tableware for the Italian brand Alessi . Read Full Story

Especially if you have a gas stove, spending more time at home for a year may have been bad for your lungs. When Alex Huffman, an aerosol scientist and associate professor at the University of Denver, recently outfitted his house with CO2 monitors—part of a home experiment to see how well different spaces were ventilated—he found out his home was pretty tightly sealed against the outside air, but carbon dioxide exhaled from his family would build up a bit as they lived their lives. There was a bigger surprise, though: When they cooked, the CO2 levels skyrocketed—not only in the kitchen, but throughout the house. Read Full Story