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2012-07-18T01:00:00Z By Tony Whitehead
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
2012-07-17T01:00:00Z By Tony Whitehead
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
2012-07-17T01:00:00Z By Tony Whitehead
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
2024-11-22T14:04:00Z By Dave Rogers
Pair put pen to paper after beginning discussions in summer
2024-11-22T12:57:00Z By Dave Rogers
65 Gresham Street plan includes outdoor workspace on every floor
2024-11-22T12:56:00Z By Tom Lowe
Scheme is most significant revamp of grade A-listed building since it opened in 1983