Our Centres

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Come inside... At Maggies we create places that help us in our mission to support people with, through and beyond cancer.

The whole building feels informal, family like - it somehow brings people together.
Bruce Tasker, Centre visitor

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.

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MAG GIES E DINBURGH

OPEN ED 1996

Richard Murphy, Richard Murphy Architects: We were the first to design a Maggies Centre and the only ones to have direct contact with Maggie herself. We never really thought thered be more than one and that the idea would take off in the way it has. It was a huge leap in the dark. A converted and beautifully extended stable block on the edge of the Western General Hospital, Maggies Edinburgh was our first centre. It defined our aesthetic with its warm, homely feel and informal garden, and introduced the pivotal idea of a central kitchen table as a key meeting place around which the rest of the centres activities revolve. The centre was subsequently extended and a new building provides a light-filled flexible space that epitomises our desire to provide comfortable, appealing interiors which help our visitors to relax.

Architect: Richard Murphy of Richard Murphy Architects Landscape Architect: Emma Keswick NHS Trust: Lothian

Location: Western General Hospital Cancer network: South East Scotland Population served: 1,400,000

Awards: RIBA Award, RIBA Department of Health National Award, EAA Conservation Award, Shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Award (all 1997)

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MAGGIES GLASGOW (GATEH OUSE )

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 of Page \ Park Landscape Architect: Charles Jencks NHS Trust: Greater Glasgow and Clyde Location: Western Infirmary Cancer network: West of Scotland

OPEN ED 2002

Population served: 2,500,000 Awards: Scottish Design Awards Chairmans Award for Architecture(2003)

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MAGGIES DUNDEE

OPEN ED 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 Jencks he 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: Arabella Lennox-Boyd

NHS Trust: Tayside University Hospitals Location: Ninewells Hospital Cancer network: North Scotland

Population served: 1,300,000 Awards: Royal Fine Art Commission Award, Sky Arts Building of the Year, (both 2004)

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MAGGIES HIGHLANDS
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 of Page \ Park Architects Landscape Architect: Charles Jencks NHS Trust: Highlands Location: Raigmore Hospital Cancer network: North Scotland Population served: 299,000

OPEN ED 2005

Awards: RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award, RICS Scotland Awards - First Prize for Community Benefit (both 2006)

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MAG GIES FIFE

OPEN ED 2006

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 Zaha Hadid Architects NHS Trust: Fife Acute Hospitals

Location: Victoria Hospital Cancer network: South East Scotland Population served: 1,400,000

Awards: American Institute of Architects (AIA) UK Chapter Award for Excellence, Scottish Design Award for Best Public Building (both 2007)

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MAGGIES L ONDON
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 particularly important 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.
Architect: Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Landscape Architect: Dan Pearson NHS Trust: Imperial College Healthcare Location: Charing Cross Hospital Cancer network: West London Population served: 1,840,000 Awards: Building Better Healthcare - 'Judges Special Award for Best

OPEN ED 2008

Primary Health Care Design' and the FX International Interior Design Award (Public Space category), (both 2008), RICS Building Award for Community Benefit, RIBA London Building of the Year, RIBA Stirling Prize (all 2009)

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MAG GIES C HELTENHAM

OPEN ED 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 Richard MacCormac of MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard

Landscape Architect: Dr Christine Facer Hoffman NHS Trust: Gloucester Hospitals Foundation Trust

Location: Cheltenham General Hospital Cancer network: Three Counties Population served: 1,100,000

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E XPAN D IN G OU R N E TW O RK
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 South West Wales, 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.

MAGGIES LANARKSHIRE

MAGGIES OXFORD

MAGGIES SOUTH WEST WALES

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 the 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.

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 faceted 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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MAGGIES NOTTINGHAM

MAGGIES GLASGOW (GARTNAVEL)

MAGGIES NORTH EAST

MAGGIES HONG KONG

Architect: Piers Gough of CZWG Architects Landscape Architect: Envert Studio NHS Trust: Nottingham University Hospital Trust Location: Nottingham City Hospital Cancer network: Mid Trent Population served: 1,300,000 Piers Gough: I hope that people will find it charming, something like a surprising home.... From the 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.

Architect: Rem Koolhaas of OMA Architects Landscape Architect: Lily Jencks NHS Trust: Greater Glasgow and Clyde Location: Gartnavel Hospital Cancer network: West of Scotland Population served: 2,500,000 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.

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 Population served: 2,500,000 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.

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.

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I just felt the building enveloped me in love... its bright, its light and the first thing you do is smile.
Trudy McLeay, Centre visitor

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Maggies Glasgow (Gartnavel) Maggies Nottingham Maggies North East Maggies Aberdeen Maggies Hong Kong T: +44 (0)300 123 1801 www.maggiescentres.org

15 at 15 : Maggies is 15 this year and were celebrating our growth to 15 centres across the UK.

Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust (Maggies) is a registered charity, No. SC024414