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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.
Balfour Beatty Vinci team says work will focus on structures taking line into new station at Curzon Street
Government advisor tells City to throw out Brookfield鈥檚 54-storey tower submitted in September
Joint venture to oversee design and construction of track along route which had 拢1.5bn value in 2020
