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Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, 鈥榙ragon-tailed鈥� cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK鈥檚 13th Maggie鈥檚 Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
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.
The Maggie鈥檚 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.
Stanhope鈥檚 revised 1 Undershaft and Brookfield鈥檚 99 Bishopsgate among new entries to Square Mile鈥檚 main cluster
President elect Nick Maclean takes over on temporary basis after Justin Sullivan waits for outcome of review
Developer looking to scale back commercial jobs in favour of push into residential
