Heatherwick Studio has completed its first healthcare project – a Maggie’s cancer care centre in Leeds.

The 462sq m building in the grounds of St James’s University Hospital in Leeds is the charity’s 26^th UK centre.

Built on a sloping site, the design was conceived as three giant planters, each enclosing a counselling room. Together they surround a kitchen area – which every Maggie’s brief requires to be at the heart of the project – and other social spaces including a library and exercise room.

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