'The power of architecture to lift the spirits and help in the process of therapy.'

Maggie's Centres offer care and therapy throughout the country:
Futures Forum: Landscaping for Health: inspiring projects in the south-west

Offering palliative care can be done thoughtfully:
Futures Forum: Healing by Design
Futures Forum: Landscaping for Health

Norman Foster's practice has just finished at the Centre in Manchester:
Maggie’s Manchester by Foster + Partners: ‘What matters is not to lose that joy of living in the fear of dying’ | Buildings | Architectural Review

Located across Britain and abroad, Maggie’s Centres are conceived to provide a welcoming ‘home away from home’ – a place of refuge where people affected by cancer can find emotional and practical support. Inspired by the blueprint for a new type of care set out by Maggie Keswick Jencks, they place great value upon the power of architecture to lift the spirits and help in the process of therapy. The design of the Manchester centre aims to establish a domestic atmosphere in a garden setting and, appropriately, is first glimpsed at the end of a tree-lined street, a short walk from The Christie Hospital and its leading oncology unit.


Maggie’s at the Robert Parfett Building | Foster + Partners

It has won awards:
Place North West | Maggie’s Manchester wins GM Building of the Year

And it features at the Museum of Architecture:

Well Built: Designing for Health and Wellbeing in Architecture

Dates: 1 November – 29 November 2016
​Opening hours: 10am - 7pm
Venue: 10 Thurloe Place, South Kensington, SW7 2RZ London
This exhibition is FREE to attend

This November, the Museum of Architecture is launching Well Built: Designing for Health and Wellbeing in Architecture. The exhibition traces new ways of thinking about health and wellbeing beyond the design of traditional therapeutic environments towards a more integrated approach that includes everyday spaces. The exhibition is divided into five different sections, each of which examines a specific building typology – hospitals and health centres, housing, workplaces, schools and public spaces. Demonstrating the enduring historical relationship between health and the city, Well Built points to the urgent need in reshaping our assumptions about health, place and space.

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