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OUR CENTRES

Come inside...

At Maggies we create places that help us in our mission to

support people with, through and beyond cancer.

Our centres play an essential role: put simply, Maggies

Centres aim to bring joy and instil hope, helping people not

to lose the joy of living in the fear of dying. Each one is

distinctive and different, and yet each offers the same

informal, comfortable surroundings that make it easy for

those dealing with the trauma of cancer to engage with our

professional help and connect with others going through a

similar experience. Every Maggies Centre aims to be a place

where people feel valued, safe and able to take their time as

they deal with the isolation and despair of a cancer diagnosis.

The whole building feels

informal, family like - it

somehow brings people together.

Bruce Tasker, Centre visitor


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David Page, Page \ Park: The problem

was to create a series of closed rooms

while retaining an overall sense of

openness. Our response emerged as a

spiral of rooms winding their way up

and around the tower. Then the spaces

break through at the back, out

towards the landscape and the park.

Maggies Glasgow is a converted

gatehouse at the edge of the Western

Infirmary. Visitors describe the centre

as like a warm, open plan home,

with its entrance opening immediately

onto the kitchen and the various sized

rooms helping each person to find

a space where they feel comfortable.

These key elements of the design

encourage people to take their time,

and stay as long as they need, as they

deal with the issues they are facing.

Charles Jencks, our co-founder,

created the intimate garden at the

back of the centre.

Architect:

David Page ofPage \ Park

Landscape

Architect:Charles Jencks

NHS Trust:

Greater Glasgowand Clyde

Location:Western Infirmary

Cancer network:West of Scotland

Population served:

2,500,000

Awards:

Scottish DesignAwards ChairmansAward forArchitecture(2003)

MAGGIES GLASGOW (GATEHOUSE) OPENED 2002


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MAGGIES DUNDEE OPENED 2003

Frank Gehry, Frank Gehry Partners:

Theres a Yiddish expression,Heymish.

It means homelike, comfortable. Thats

what we were trying to do there.

Sitting in front of Ninewells Hospital,

Maggies Dundee is Frank Gehrys only

permanent building in the UK. As a

friend of Maggie and Charles Jenckshe was very concerned to be true to

our founders ideas, and after

completing many sketches and models,

none of which felt right, he talks of a

dream: Maggie came to me and said

to calm it down. So I came into the

office the next morning, swept up all

the stuff and put it in the archive.

His realised design provides an

intimate, house-like centre, true to

Maggies ideals, but with distinctive

touches that inspire and uplift our

visitors, such as the observation tower

with views across the estuary and the

stunning ribbed wood ceiling.

Architect:Frank Gehry

Landscape

Architect:ArabellaLennox-Boyd

NHS Trust:Tayside UniversityHospitals

Location:Ninewells Hospital

Cancer network:

North Scotland

Population served:1,300,000

Awards:Royal Fine ArtCommission Award,Sky Arts Buildingof the Year,(both 2004)

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MAGGIES HIGHLANDS OPENED 2005

Charles Jencks, landscape architect:

[David Page and I] came to a design

that was a bit of a garden and a bit of

building. Id been reading about the

secret language of cells and suggested

that we make the building itself a

dividing cell, conceived as the inversion

of one of the mounds.

Building and landscape design are totally

integrated in Maggies Highlands which

was created by David Page of Page \

Park in collaboration with Charles Jencks

who acted as its landscape architect.

Sitting at the edge of Raigmore Hospital,

it is a strikingly sculptural centre, full of

light and curving spaces which David

Page describes as aiming to create a

sense of embrace. The free-flowing

interior, reflects our belief that every part

of every centre should be accessible and

open, in contrast to many institutional

settings, and many visitors comment on

the sense of calm the building evokes.

Architect:

David Page ofPage \ ParkArchitects

Landscape

Architect:Charles Jencks

NHS Trust: Highlands

Location:

Raigmore Hospital

Cancer network:North Scotland

Population served:299,000

Awards:

RIAS Andrew DoolanBest Building inScotland Award,RICS ScotlandAwards - FirstPrize forCommunity Benefit(both 2006)

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Zaha Hadid, Zaha Hadid Architects:

The building responds to a certain

need after visiting the hospital and

the processes of chemotherapy... it

provides a place between all that and

going home. Its a kind of buffer in that

sense, the idea that you re-enter the

world through a small, domestic-scaled

environment.

Maggies Fife at Victoria Hospital is

Zaha Hadids first permanent building in

the UK. The exterior is dark and angular,

appearing almost as if the ground has

folded itself up into a protective envelope

for the centre within, which in contrast,

is bright and light with expansive views

of trees and greenery. The centre offers,

as Hadid puts it, a completely different

world to the hospital environment,

and this is a key aspect of our approach

which aims to provide uplifting

environments that can help people to

develop new perspectives on their cancer.

Architect:

Zaha Hadid of ZahaHadid Architects

NHS Trust:

Fife AcuteHospitals

Location:

Victoria Hospital

Cancer network:

South EastScotland


Awards: AmericanInstitute ofArchitects (AIA)UK Chapter Awardfor Excellence,Scottish DesignAward for BestPublic Building(both 2007)

MAGGIES F IFE OPENED 2006

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Richard Rogers, Rogers Stirk Harbour +

Partners: The idea was to minimise the

over-bearing impact of Charing Cross

Hospital. The roof, the landscaping, the

hearth inside, the views out, each of

these was to take you away from the

hospital and the bustle of the road.

At Maggies London it was particularlyimportant to create a place of peace and

calm in a busy urban location. Richard

Rogers designed the centre to look

inwards, without excluding the outside

world, and his design includes a number

of internal courtyards and tucked away

spaces for people to retreat to, while

having an overall sense of openness

and light. The striking exterior walls

encourage people in, and the layout

inside inspires visitors to explore which

reflects our ethos of supporting people

to discover and explore the resources

within themselves that can help them

to manage the impact of their cancer.

MAGGIES LONDON OPENED 2008

Architect:

Richard Rogersof Rogers StirkHarbour + Partners

Landscape

Architect:Dan Pearson

NHS Trust:

Imperial CollegeHealthcare

Location: CharingCross Hospital

Cancer network:

West London


Awards: BuildingBetter Healthcare- 'Judges Special

Award for Best

Primary Health CareDesign' and theFX InternationalInterior DesignAward (PublicSpace category),(both 2008), RICSBuilding Award forCommunity Benefit,RIBA LondonBuilding of the

Year,RIBA StirlingPrize (all 2009)

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MAGGIES CHELTENHAM OPENED 2010

Sir Richard MacCormac, MJP Architects:

Its not really a building; its a large

piece of inhabited furniture with a roof

hovering above it. Furniture is more

immediate than buildings are: we use it,

touch it, engage with it. Through the

joinery we convey care, so that when

people come in they feel they have

come to a place about care.

Maggies Cheltenham is our newest

centre. A conversion of a Victorian Grade

II Listed Lodge coupled with a new single

storey extension, its located in the

grounds of Cheltenham General Hospital.

Sir Richard describes his design as aiming

to be responsive to different frames of

mind or moods and includes special

refuges that can facilitate a key aspect

of Maggies approach the provision of

professional emotional and psychological

support in surroundings where people

feel relaxed, valued and safe as they

work through challenging emotions.

Architect:

Sir RichardMacCormac ofMacCormac JamiesonPritchard

Landscape

Architect:Dr ChristineFacer Hoffman

NHS Trust:

GloucesterHospitalsFoundation Trust

Location:

Cheltenham GeneralHospital

Cancer network:Three Counties

Population served:

1,100,000

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EXPANDING

OUR NETWORK

The need for our support continues

to grow so we are working to expand

our network of centres across the

UK and beyond. Where we currently

offer the Maggies programme of

support in an interim centre, in

Lanarkshire, Oxford and SouthWestWales, new purpose-built centres

have been designed and are in

various stages of development.

We are also establishing new centres

at a number of locations across the

UK where we have been invited to

build a Maggies Centre by the local

NHS team. Maggies Nottingham

and Maggies Glasgow (Gartnavel)

will open at the end of 2011 and a

new centre for the North East is

being developed.

We aim to have a further ten

centres in development by 2014.

Architect: Neil Gillespie of Reiach and Hall

Landscape Architect: rankinfraser

NHS Trust: Lanarkshire

Location: Monklands General Hospital

Cancer network: West Scotland

Population served: 560,000

Neil Gillespie: A Maggies brief is challenging for many

reasons, it is a unique building type. A Maggies is all about

a different kind of care, a care that is dispensed from a

domestic scaled building yet it is not a house nor is it a

hospital. Virtually all Maggies plans evolve from t he kitchen

table; around having somewhere to go to the moment you

enter the building. Our plan too develops from the kitchen

table outwards to the courtyards, the trees and beyond.

Currently Maggies Lanarkshire is based at Wishaw Hospital

but its new home will be at Monklands General Hospital.

MAGGIES LANARKSHIRE

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Architect: Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre of Wilkinson Eyre

Landscape Architect: Flora Gathorne Hardy

NHS Trust: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals

Location: Churchill Hospital

Cancer network: Thames Valley

Population served: 1,000,000

Chris Wilkinson: Our concept is based around a treehouse,

supported on piloti with its elevations fa ceted to maximise

the relationship between inside and outside space.

The centre nestles into woods at the edge of the hospital

grounds and will have a three-pronged form where each

wing will make its way into the trees, culminating in a little

terrace to provide direct access to fresh air and nature.

As with all our centres it will provide a range of both open

and private spaces.

Architect: Kisho Kurokawa of Kisho Kurokawa Architects

Landscape Architect: Kim Wilkie

NHS Trust: Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University

Location: Singleton Hospital

Cancer network: South West Wales

Population served: 900,000

Kisho Kurokawa, one of the greatest Japanese architects of

the 20th Century, was also a friend of our founder Maggie

Keswick Jencks. His stunning circular design, inspired by

the cosmos and connections between East and West, was

created before he died. He described the spiralling arms

of the centre acting as devices to welcome the visitor and

lead [them] to the other side, which embraces nature, the

trees, rocks and water. A glass roof at the centre of the

building further enhances the sense of cosmic connection

by providing unimpeded views of the sky.

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Architect: Piers Gough of CZWG Architects

Landscape Architect: Envert Studio

NHS Trust: Nottingham University Hospital Trust

Location: Nottingham City Hospital

Cancer network: Mid Trent


Piers Gough: I hope that people will find it charming,

something like a surprising home.... From t he outside the

playful appearance will entice people to take a look through

the door; once they do the harmony of light and space will

create a uniquely welcoming environment.This centre will

have a very distinctive exterior made up of interlocking

ovals that form a square building and inside this idea of

symmetry will continue in the arrangement of the rooms,

creating a calming, relaxing place for our visitors. Sir Paul

Smith will be designing and furnishing the interior.

MAGGIES NOTTINGHAM

Architect: Rem Koolhaas of OMA Architects

Landscape Architect: Lily Jencks

NHS Trust: Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Location: Gartnavel Hospital

Cancer network: West of Scotland


Rem Koolhaas: We accepted the commission with eagerness.

The space we have is linked to the existing hospital, but far

enough away from it for us to create another world. It has

both privacy and a central position; both sheltered and

slightly exposed.The centre design is a single-level

building arranged in a ring of interlocking rooms that

surround an internal, landscaped courtyard. It is scheduled

to open in autumn 2011 and will be conveniently located

close to the new Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre.

MAGGIES GLASGOW (GARTNAVEL)

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Architect: Ted Cullinan of Edward Cullinan Architects

Landscape Architect: Sarah Price

NHS Trust: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS

Foundation Trust

Location: Freeman Hospital

Cancer network: North of England


Ted Cullinan: Maggie's Centres aim at a wonderful balance of

the moral with the aesthetic. We are thrilled to be involved.

This centre will utilise sustainable, low-carbon materials and

technology, helping to minimise its environmental impact.

In keeping with Maggies ethos, this centre will encompass

a range of spaces, both internal and external, that together

provide a stimulating and comforting place for our visitors.

The L-shaped design will enclose a courtyard garden,

creating a protected, sheltered place while the landscaped

roof will provide a contrasting elevated, open area.

MAGGIES NORTH EAST

Architect: Frank Gehry

Landscape Architect: Lily Jencks

Hospital Authority: Hospital Authority for Hong Kong

Location: Tuen Mun Hospital

Area served: West New Territories

Cluster Population served: 1,200,000

A purpose built centre, designed by Frank Gehry, is being

developed at Tuen Mun Hospital, where we currently have

an interim centre. Situated close to a grove of mature trees

and a grass lawn that will act as a borrowed garden, the

centre itself will form a bridge over a pond, with four

distinct gardens around its sides. Its arrangement will be like

a series of pavilions where the interior rooms fold into the

landscape or pop out with a private terrace over a pond.

MAGGIES HONG KONG


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I just felt the building

enveloped me in love... itsbright, its light and the

first thing you do is smile.

Trudy McLeay, Centre visitor


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OUR CENTRES

Maggies Edinburgh

Maggies Glasgow (Gatehouse)

Maggies Dundee

Maggies HighlandsMaggies Fife

Maggies London

Maggies Cheltenham

Maggies Lanarkshire

Maggies Oxford

Maggies South West Wales

Maggies Online

CENTRES IN DEVELOPMENT

Maggies Glasgow (Gartnavel)

Maggies Nottingham

Maggies North East

Maggies Aberdeen

Maggies Hong Kong

T: +44 (0)300 123 1801www.maggiescentres.org

Open Centre

Interim Centre

In Development

Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust

(Maggies) is a registered charity, No. SC024414

15 at 15 : Maggies is 15 this year

and were celebrating our growth

to 15 centres across the UK.

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