The display will look at the network of seven buildings in the UK from the first centre which opened in Edinburgh in 1996, to the Stirling Prize winning centre in London by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners which opened in 2008 and the newly-opened Maggie’s Cheltenham. There will also be models for six further centres to be opened before 2012, including designs by Wilkinson Eyre and Kisho Kurokawa.
Maggie’s, Dundee
Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres have been designed by some of the world’s most high profile architects including Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid to provide welcoming and uplifting spaces and support for those affected by cancer. To mark the 15th anniversary of the first Maggie’s Centre, the V&A will present the first comprehensive study of these remarkable buildings in the V&A and RIBA Architecture Gallery.
Maggie’s Centres represent some of the most creative architectural spaces in the UK. Focused closely on the needs of people with cancer, their brief has been used by architects as a canvas for experimentation. Each site will be explored through models, drawings and photographs. Specially-commissioned films interviewing both the architects and patients who benefit from the centres will examine the restorative and inspiring power of the Centres.
Maggie’s Centres
· Maggie’s Edinburgh (designed by Richard Murphy)
· Maggie’s Glasgow (designed by Page and Park)
· Maggie’s Dundee (designed by Frank Gehry of Gehry and Partners)
· Maggie’s Highlands (designed by Page and Park)
· Maggie’s Fife (designed by Zaha Hadid of Zaha Hadid Architects)
· Maggie’s London (designed by Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners)
· Maggie’s Cheltenham( designed by Sir Richard MacCormac CBE of
MacCormac Jameison and Pritchard Architects)
Maggie’s Centres projected to open before 2012:
· Maggie’s Gartnavel (Glasgow) (designed by Rem Koolhaas of Office of
Metropolitan Architecture)
· Maggie’s South West Wales (designed by Dr Kisho Kurokawa of ArBITAT Architects)
· Maggie’s Oxford (designed by Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Eyre Architects)
· Maggie’s Nottingham (designed by Piers Gough of CZWG Architects, interior
design by Sir Paul Smith)
· Maggie’s North East (designed by Ted Cullinan of Edward Cullinan Architects)
· Maggie’s Lanarkshire (designed by Neil Gillespie of Reiach and Hall)
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