With 28 medical clinic designs behind him, Seattle's Paul Hayden Kirk, 42, has emerged as the West Coast architect who can design just what the doctors order. Two years ago a group of seven Seattle psychoanalysts and psychiatrists, banded together as the Blakeley Psychiatric Group, went to Architect Kirk with a special problem. As one of them stated (with some symptoms of frustration): "Situated in the business district and open to the distractions of an apartment hotel, we run a dismal gauntlet—slamming doors, dripping faucets, a view of an alley, rattling trucks and an s.o.b. who dotes on playing the banjo....
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