Maggie's Edinburgh, the first Maggie's Centre, opened in 1996. Originally a stable block behind Edinburgh's Western General Hospital, it was converted by Richard Murphy Architects, with an extension added in 2001. 'A placebo is a phoney cure that works,' Jencks explains. 'You can imagine all sorts of ways in which architecture adds to the placebo effect'
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Maggie's Glasgow, which opened in 2002, occupies a Victorian former gatehouse and was converted by David Page of Glasgow-based Page \ Park. 'if the carers are cared for, they turn up, they enjoy it and you create this virtuous circle, this mood in a Maggie’s Centre which is quite amazing,' says Jencks
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The first purpose-built Maggie's Centre was designed by Frank Gehry, a friend of Maggie Keswick's. The building, which opened in 2003, was inspired by historic Highland dwellings and the folds of a Dutch hat worn by a girl in a Vermeer painting
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Maggie's Highlands in Inverness, which opened in 2005, was designed by David Page of Page \ Park, with surrounding landscaping by Jencks himself
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The design of Maggie's Fife, Zaha Hadid's first built work in the UK, proved controversial when it opened in 2006. Critics compared its dark, angular facade to a 'stealth bomber' and 'Darth Vader helmet'
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The first Maggie's Centre in London was designed by Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and opened in 2008. It is surrounded by gardens by the landscape designer Dan Pearson
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Designs for six new Maggie's Centres around the country have been unveiled, with additional centres to come
Images taken from The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres by Edwin Heathcote and Charles Jencks with Laura Lee and Katy Mahood (Frances Lincoln)
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Edward Cullinan's design for a Maggie's Centre in Newcastle features a sustainable building constructed around a hidden courtyard
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Construction on Maggie's Cotswolds, designed by Richard MacCormac, began in September 2009. The design converts and extends an existing Grade II listed building
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Maggie's Gartnavel will be the second Maggie's Centre in Glasgow, which has the highest incidence of cancer of any local council area in Scotland. Rem Koolhaas, a former teacher of Zaha Hadid, has designed the centre
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Maggie's South West Wales will be built at Singleton Hospital Swansea to a design by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, who died in 2007
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Maggie's Oxford, which will replace an existing temporary centre, has been designed by Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre
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