Daniel Libeskind’s Maggie’s cancer care centre at the Royal Free Hospital in north London has been approved by Camden council.

The two-storey timber building will be built in the grounds of the brutalist Hampstead hospital. As well as domestically scaled spaces set around a kitchen table – a requirement of all Maggie’s briefs – the new centre will have a garden on the roof.

The charity, which provides free advice and support, is hoping to open its new 435sq m centre by the summer of 2022. It will replace a building used by another charity Cancerkin, whose services are now provided by Maggie’s, with some users expressing concern that the new structure would have less space than the old.

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