Snohetta has just shared renderings of their first building in the UK, the latest in a series of cancer care hubs called Maggie’s centers. The proposal features an elegantly curved, pebble-shaped structure with wise-grained wooden box inserted betwixt sinuous, thickened lines. in an effort to preserve the joy of living, the charity ‘maggie’s centers’ have created a series of buildings since the mid 1990’s dedicated to providing free emotional, practical and social support for cancer patients. This is an enlightened task of creating uplifting environments for cancer care, borne of an idea of Maggie Keswick Jencks, wife of renown architectural theorist and landscape sculptor Charles Jencks. While Maggie passed away after a battle with breast cancer in 1995, her legacy remains, with some of the world’s foremost architects continuing to build these hopeful, palliative structures.
