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Maggies Lanarkshire : Monklands Hospital Building

Maggies Centre, South Lanarkshire - design by Reiach and Hall Architects

7 Jun 2011 Maggies Lanarkshire Design: Reiach and Hall Architects Our Approach to Maggies Lanarkshire A belt of mature lime trees defined and protected the grounds of Airdrie House from the north wind. In the early 1960’s Airdrie House was demolished to make way for the massive Monklands District General Hospital. The hospital’s ubiquitous, sprawling car parking reached out and invaded the once verdant northern edge, leaving it eroded and vulnerable. image © Reiach and Hall Architects The site for the proposed Maggies Centre is one of these intrusive car park areas. In a healing gesture the new Maggies centre embraces two detached stands of lime trees, once more bringing a sense of continuity and enclosure to this northern edge. image © Reiach and Hall Architects At its heart, the design of the Maggies Centre at Monklands General Hospital is a tale of enclosed gardens, a linked sequence of external rooms perforating a low building that in turn acts as a mediator and connector between these sources of light and air. A brick wall binds the site enclosing this gathering of human scaled spaces, catching sunlight and creating sheltering places. Visitors enter a quiet simple space, an arrival court, defined by low brick walls and two lime trees. At once a sense of dignity and calm is encountered. A linear rill, a spring, animates the space with the sound of running water, a refreshing source and an intimation of beginnings. image © Reiach and Hall Architects The building plan is perforated with four small sheltered courts, intimate external rooms embedded in the plan. Golden metal light catchers hover over these spaces reflecting sunlight onto the floor of the court. A simple repetitive framed structure defines and creates an intimate scale while allowing spaces and rooms to either open up to the central sequence of public rooms or close down to create private moments. The journey through the building emerges out into a large walled garden that slopes down to the east; generous terraces give way to lawn and culminating in a large reflective pool and literally a place of reflection. image © Reiach and Hall Architects Neil Gillespie Reiach and Hall Architects Maggies Lanarkshire images / information from Reiach and Hall Architects Maggies Lanarkshire design : Reiach and Hall Architects Maggies Monklands Hospital This project has relocated to Monklands Hospital image © Maggie's Centres More details online soon Maggies Centres Buildings Previously: Reiach and Hall Architects to take over this building project from the liquidated Ushida Findlay Partnership: announced Sep 2004. Ushida Findlay (Architects) to design £5.5m Maggies Centre in grounds of Wishaw General Hospital. Ushida Findlay Partnership Glasgow Building: Homes for the Future 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 various big-name architects designing ten centres around the country - Frank Gehry in Dundee, Daniel Libeskind in Cambridge, Page and Park in Glasgow and Inverness, Zaha Hadid in Kirkcaldy. Maggies Centre Architects Maggies Wishaw Designers : Reiach and Hall Architects

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