Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre, Cheltenham, by MJP Architects
performance and procurement, he recalls an era when the architect was a ‘renaissance man’. McCormac is a designer and practitioner, with keen interests in planning, detail and painting, and he also writes about these subjects with exceptional lucidity and with human interest as a core principle. MacCormac describes the small
site, a short walk from Cheltenham General Hospital’s oncology department, as ‘a place apart’. Te main volume, a linear single-story building aligned with the River Chelt, nestles against the lodge of a former Victorian bathhouse. Diminutive pods and external spaces complete this cluster of buildings, articulated in a Soanean manner by glazed links – an urban composition in miniature. Te site is set back from the road and is approached either from a car park or along a path, that winds >>
Tis cluster of buildings is an urban composition in miniature
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