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Maggies Cancer
Care Centres
Half of the visitors simply drop by for conversation and information.
Its success is such that an ambitious building programme is currently
under way, with centres by various big-name architects around the country
- from Frank Gehry in Dundee, to Daniel Libeskind in Cambridge, Page and
Park in Glasgow and Inverness to Zaha Hadid in Kirkcaldy.
Maggies Centres - News Jan 2008
Glasgow set to become the only city with 2 Maggies Centres, with a new
building for Gartnavel.
Meanwhile, the PM’s wife praises Kirkcaldy’s centre in the Telegraph,
5 Jan: ”Our local Maggie's is a remarkable place, designed by the
groundbreaking architect Zaha Hadid. It has a feeling of peace and human
purpose. This beautiful building helps people look outward and forward.”
Maggies Centres, UK
Built (chronological)
Maggies
Centre - original Cancer Care Centre: Phase I, Western General Hospital,
Edinburgh, 1994: Richard Murphy Architects
Maggies Edinburgh - Phase II, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, 1997-2001:
Richard Murphy Architects
Maggies Glasgow, Western
Infirmary, Glasgow: Page & Park
Maggies
Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, 2003: Frank Gehry
Maggies
Inverness, Highlands, 2003-05: Page & Park
Maggies
Kirkcaldy, Fife, 2003-06: Zaha Hadid
Proposed
Maggies Wishaw, South
Lanarkshire: Reiach and Hall Architects
(building previously by Ushida Findlay Architects)
Maggies Sheffield: Hawkins & Brown Architects
Maggies London: Richard Rogers
Maggies Cambridge: Daniel Libeskind Architects
Maggies Swansea: Kisho Kurokawa
Maggies Newcastle: Foreign Office Architecture
Maggies Oxford: Wilkinson Eyre
Maggies Cotswolds: MacCormac Jamieson Prichard
Maggies Nottingham: CZWG
Maggies Gartnavel:
Rem Koolhaas
Relevant Links to Maggies Centres:
Charles
Jencks Scotland
Frank
Gehry Architecture
Charles
Jencks - Background
Maggies Centre Architects:
Frank
Gehry
Zaha
Hadid
Richard
Rogers
Daniel
Libeskind Architects
Ushida
Findlay Architects
Scottish
Architecture
Glasgow : back to index
Comments / photos for the Scottish Cancer Care Centre page welcome:
info@glasgowarchitecture.co.uk
Maggies Centres - building page:
adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
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