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Cancer centre designed to inspire

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2003 / September 26

FRANK Gehry, the celebrated architect who designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, yesterday unveiled his first building in Britain - a "friendly little clubhouse" for cancer sufferers in Dundee.

The Maggie's Cancer Care Centre, built in the grounds of Ninewells Hospital, may be one of Mr Gehry's smallest commissions in recent years.

But the Ł1.3 million building, named in memory of the late Maggie Keswick Jencks, a close friend of the architect, bears the hallmarks of Mr Gehry's revolutionary designs - a stunning concertina-ed roof, made of stainless steel and timber, and curved walls everywhere.

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