38 PROJECT REPORT: HEALTHCARE BUILDINGS


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eatherwick Studio’s first completed healthcare project globally is a typically adventurous structure for


a Maggie’s Centre, on a tight, sloping corner of a hospital site in Leeds. However, this biophilia-embracing design displays a particular amount of care and sensitivity to its users, as well as modesty – in keeping with the highly sensitive nature of the client’s aim to both support and inspire cancer patients and their families. St James’ University Hospital is thought to be the largest teaching hospital in Europe, its buildings densely packing a dense site to the north east of the city centre. It is also home to the Leeds Cancer Centre, serving a


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wide variety of patients across Yorkshire, and it was these two combined factors that led cancer charity Maggie’s to locate its 26th facility here.


The key challenge to architects Heatherwick Studio was that the project would of necessity be removing the last green space in the whole campus, and therefore the practice pledged to not only restore this greenery, but increase it using substantial roof gardens. However, having not designed a therapeutic environment before, the architects were faced with wider challenges, not least the need to elevate the typical ‘clinical healthcare experience.’


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