News: Causing Health Globally
Farrow Partners is globally recognized as a pioneer of salutogenic design – design that actively incites health. We are working globally in the realms of architecture, planning, and placemaking to cause health and increase knowledge about the important role architecture has to play in enhancing human health and performance. Recent highlights include:
Hillside Intergenerational Housing: Generational Care and Wellbeing
Explore the health benefits associated with living amongst various generations, and how Hillside Intergenerational Housing uses kindergarten services to enhance the wellbeing of its residents.
Design Magazine: Interview with Tye Farrow
Tye Farrow is interviewed by Tiago Krusse for Design Magazine following keynote lecture and discussion panel at the Neuroarchitecture Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal at the Portuguese Academy of Neuroarchitecture.
Knowledge Hub: Embreathment
The Embreathment page in the Knowledge Hub offers insight into the calming architectural tool featured in healthcare environments such as the SZMC Helmsley Cancer Center.
Guest Lecture at Stanford University
Tye Farrow to deliver guest lecture at Stanford University to the Brains, Bodies & Buildings: Neuro-Architecture & Spaces that Shape Us course.
The Timber Truth: SZMC Helmsley Cancer Centre
The SZMC Helmsley Cancer Centre by Farrow Partners and Rubinstein Ofer has been featured in Timber Truth by Pablo van der Lugt.
In The Works: SJK ARCH
A new athletics facility for SJK is in the works; the Athletics Recreation, Community and Health Centre, or the ARCH.
JBD Book Review: Constructing Health
The Journal of Biophilic Design publishes their 17th issue featuring a book review of Constructing Health by Tye Farrow.
Helmsley Cancer Centre Wins AGPB Technology Award
The SZMC Helmsley Cancer Centre is the recipient of the 2025 Austrian Green Planet Building Technology Award.
In The Works: Forest Temple
A nondenominational temple is in the works for the Canadian woodlands in Caledon, Ontario.
Emotions and The Built Environment
James Russel’s Circumplex model can aid in the understanding of how the built environment influences the human body through the mapping of emotions.
Knowledge Hub: Architectural Determinants of Health
The Architectural Determinants of Health page on the Farrow Partners Knowledge Hub has officially launched!
Article by Tye Farrow in Journal of Biophilic Design
Issue 17 of the Journal of Biophilic Design features a new article by Tye Farrow surrounding Salutogenesis and the Architectural Determinants of Health
Now Open: RSGC Student Commons & Arts Centre
The new student commons and arts centre at Royal St. George’s College in Toronto has officially opened after construction was completed in fall 2025
Sheba Negev Hospital Master Plan wins International Academy Award
The Sheba Negev Hospital Masterplan by Farrow Partners and Rubinstein Ofer have been awarded an International Academy Award at the Design and Health World Congress 2025 in Singapore.
Project Highlight: Sechelt Hospital
See the Sechelt Hospital located northwest of Vancouver, designed in collaboration with Perkins + Will to explore the concept of authenticity in architectural design.
South American Debut of Constructing Health Short Film
The Constructing Health short film will debut at the NEUROARQ Day Conference in São Paolo, Brazil on October 26.
The Effects of Enriching and Impoverished Environments on the Brain
Neuroscience research demonstrates that the brain develops according the our environments, proving that the design of the built environment has the ability to enhance or diminish human health.
Mass Timber Guest Lecture at BCIT
Tye Farrow to deliver a guest lecture to the Mass Timber mini course at the British Columbia Institute of Technology on October 7
Tye Farrow on the jury for the 2025 AIA Latrobe Prize
Tye Farrow will serve on the jury for the 2025 Latrobe Prize in Denver, Colorado hosted by the AIA on September 29
Project Highlight: SJK Centre for the Arts
In celebration of the commencement of the new school year, take a look at the SJK Centre for the Arts. The newly renovated arts, robotics, and design technology facilities at the Breslau, Ontario independent school.