Healthcare
Nevele 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
Kisho 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 titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
Solving 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, very few were identical
The ‘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 project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment
First look: AHMM takes domestic approach with suburban hospice scheme
Architect designs £1.8 million building to feel like a ‘big version of someone’s house’
First Look: Duggan Morris brings a flexible approach to Denmark Hill centre
Duggan Morris Architects has submitted a planning application for a New Learning Centre on the Maudsley Hospital Campus in Denmark Hill, south London.
Maggie’s Centre Gartnavel by OMA
OMA wilfully subverts expectations at its Glasgow Maggie’s Centre, which melts unassumingly into the background.
Toh 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
First look: Reiach & Hall given green light for Lanarkshire Maggie’s centre
Reiach & Hall Architects has secured planning permission for a new Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre to be built at Monklands General Hospital in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
AHMM 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
