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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.
Bonus scheme to fund up to 拢200m for projects, as Scottish Power seals deal for East Anglia TWO wind farm
Body鈥檚 interim chair said move risks ministers 鈥渕arking their own homework鈥� on housing design
Pair to lead public sector work including health and schools聽
