Maggies Centre, Kirkcaldy by Zaha Hadid
A Maggie’s cancer care centre in the grounds of a Kirkcaldy hospital is Zaha Hadid’s first UK building. Ellis Woodman finds it takes excellent advantage of a quirky site to create architecture of a...
View ArticleA garden for England
A serene, green courtyard is the at the heart of Steffian Bradley’s Gravesham Community Hospital in Kent
View ArticleLift and celebrate
In a south-west London suburb, Penoyre & Prasad has negotiated its way through a complex contract and NHS regulations to deliver a striking uplift in design standards
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Sky views for Ansell & Bailey’s basement radiography suite at the Royal Marsden
View ArticleSheffield hospital’s new medical ward is a picture of health
Sheppard Robson brings colour and clarity to NHS design.
View ArticleRogers Stirk Harbour’s Maggie’s Centre at Charing Cross Hospital is a place...
A sense of abstract domesticity pervades the first Maggie’s Centre to be built in England — at challenging site at Charing Cross Hospital
View ArticleAHMM puts Kentish Town Health Centre in the picture
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has helped realise a pioneering medical practice’s ambition for a centre where health, medicine and art come together
View ArticleToh Shimazaki’s eye surgery is sight specific
A brief to rethink a new eye surgery scheme has resulted in a non-invasive design that grows out of the contours of its secluded West Sussex site
View ArticleMaggie’s Centre Gartnavel by OMA
OMA wilfully subverts expectations at its Glasgow Maggie’s Centre, which melts unassumingly into the background.
View ArticleThe ‘cosmic whirlpool’ and other Maggie’s Centres
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity...
View ArticleSolving the panel puzzle
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar,...
View ArticleKisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in...
View ArticleNevele care home extension by 51N4E
A quietly radical intervention at a Belgian care home addresses the challenges of designing for an ageing population by changing relationships within and beyond the building
View ArticleMaggie's North East by Cullinan Studio
Ted Cullinan’s thoughtful Maggie’s Centre makes the most of Newcastle’s elusive sunshine and creates a home-like atmosphere on a hospital campus
View ArticleOrtus Maudsley Learning Centre by Duggan Morris Architects
Duggan Morris’s precisely considered learning centre provides an elegant oasis of openness that links a south London psychiatric facility with its historic urban surroundings
View ArticleLydia Eva Court by Barron and Smith Architects
By 2051 it is predicted over two million people in the UK will have dementia and more care homes will need to be built that are adapted to these complex needs. One pioneering care home in Norfolk shows...
View ArticleMaggie's Centre, Kirkcaldy by Zaha Hadid
In 2006, Zaha Hadid’s first UK building opened. It was a Maggie’s cancer care centre in the grounds of a Kirkcaldy hospital and BD’s then architecture critic Ellis Woodman found that it took excellent...
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