ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 449
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Fri Oct 23 09:29:55 PDT 2009
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MAGGIE'S CENTRE GETS 2009 STIRLING PRIZE
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On a difficult corner site along a busy street, Maggie's
Centre in London provides an uplifting sanctuary in
which cancer patients and their families and friends can
receive support and information. The building's bold
orange masonry wall beckons visitors into daylit spaces
shielded from the street beneath a floating roof canopy.
This humane health support facility designed by Rogers
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The project "exceeds at every level in fulfilling the
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announcement, adding that the firm "has produced a
timeless work of architecture that not only distils the
intentions of this brief but expresses in built form
compassion, sensitivity and a deep sense of our common
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This is the second Stirling Prize for Richard Rogers's
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Spirited Haven
To create a welcoming retreat on the grounds of Charing
Cross Hospital, next to a congested main road, the
architects conceived of the London Maggie's Centre as a
homelike two-story pavilion, centered on a kitchen, with
indoor and outdoor space interwoven within the bounds of
a tall, orange perimeter wall.
The building entrance faces the hospital grounds.
Visitors are funneled through a forecourt of trees and
benches into an outdoor corridor formed by two parallel
segments of the orange wall where it spirals back on
itself. The roof seems to float above the highly
transparent clerestory windows, its inverted-hip form
perforated by a series of square openings.
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High Tension over Big Timber
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debris crashing into homes and farmland downstream of
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mountain habitat and hundreds of millions of dollars in
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