
Maggie’s Centre, Inverness
Key Facts
Client
Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centre
Location
Raigmore Hospital, Old Perth Rd, Inverness
Value
£860,000
Internal Floor Area
225m2
Completion
January 2005
A garden building for those in need of support
Project Info
The Charles Jencks spiralling elipitcal garden hills extend outwards from the prow of the contrasting inverted stepped copper enclosure to the centre comprising a cluster of meeting and activity spaces opening up with large sliding doors to the shared kitchen and gathering space at its heart.
Maggie’s Highlands Cancer Caring Centre at Raigmore Hospital, Old Perth Road, Inverness is a one and a half storey timber frame building designed by Page\Park Architects to reflect and harmonise with the adjacent landscape designed by the critically acclaimed landscape designer Charles Jencks.
Located on the southern side of Scotland’s fastest growing City, the building provides non-residential support and source of information for anyone from the local or wider Highland’s communities associated or involved in any way with cancer. The brief from the outset clearly stated that the building had to provide a warm and ‘homely’ environment for the users of the Centre, whilst also being an uplifting and stimulating place to be. This recognition of the importance and quality of the environment in which care and support is given is an essential and core principle of the Maggie’s organisation, simply that the environment plays an essential part in the therapy provided at each centre. It is this core principle of the organisations brief that challenges each designer to respond in unique and innovative ways.



Testimonial
“This is a magnificent new centre which I have no doubt will be a haven for people affected by cancer.”
Andy Kerr Former Health Minister
Selected Awards
2006 RIAS ‘Andrew Doolan’ Award for Best Scottish Building
RICS Awards 2006 - Winner Regional Award
RIBA Awards 2006 - Scottish Region award winner – Healthcare category
2006 International Architecture Award Awarded by the Chicago Athenaeum
Scottish Design Awards 2006 - Northern Exposure Category
2006 Copper in Architecture Awards 12
GIA Award 2006