special report: healthcare build & design
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Maggie’s Centres where you enter straight into the kitchen or social space, the entrance to this Centre is unique. Visitors arrive into a central lobby space via a bridge, which passes through the trees and plants on the sloping site. From the central lobby one can follow the stairs in front straight down into the double height kitchen space with its own balcony framed by the sur- rounding trees. Directly off from the central lobby there is a
staff office and a library – each with their own bal- conies framed by the trees. The ground floor also has two medium sized sitting rooms. Also off the central lobby is the central staircase, lit by a clerestory window, and lift, which takes you up to two consultation rooms, a day bedroom, two lava- tories (one disabled) and a large meeting space, which can be used for exercise classes and various functions or events. This main meeting room space has flexible partitions so that it can be divided for smaller group work. The ceilings on this level follow the curves of the sloping roof and give the space a unique sculptural feel. “Design and architecture are very important to
Maggie’s Centres and to visitors because from the outside the buildings are striking and stun- ning, when people enter they come with a certain curiosity and what they’re met with is this beau- tiful light and this openness and beautiful lines. They feel a sense of being somewhere special, which is uplifting to them and makes them feel special as well,” Mandy McMahan, centre head at Maggie's Nottingham. The near symmetrical design and generous
height of Maggie’s Nottingham allows the building to have a sense of space and balance.
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‘The oval elevations of the building appear as friendly
oval faces – something almost like a fairytale building that the visitor comes across in the
charming little patch of woods amid the less charming site of the hospital’
Architect – CZWG Interior design – Paul Smith (Interiors) Structural engineer – Adams Kara Taylor M&E consultant – KJ Tait Engineers Quantity surveyor – Turner & Townsend Lighting consultant – FOTO-MA Landscape architect – envert studio Project manager – Turner & Townsend Main contractor – Bowmer and Kirkland Building Services CDM coordinator – PFB Construction Management Services
Approved building inspector – MLM Building Control
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