When the architect Charles Jencks’s wife, Maggie, was diagnosed with cancer, he wanted to channel his grief towards something productive that helped others with similar diagnoses. Shortly after, Jencks co-founded a charity, Maggie’s Centre, which sought to provide thoughtful healthcare architecture for cancer patients around the world. Since 1995, luminaries like Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Kisho Kurokawa, Richard Rogers, Frank Gehry and others have designed compact treatment facilities for the nonprofit.
This week, Studio Libeskind unveiled its own Maggie’s Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London—“Maggie’s Royal Free” in short. Libeskind’s design is sinuously clad in timber, but still manages to create the signature
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