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Cancer care centre is building of the year

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / June 11

A cancer care centre in Dundee, designed by the acclaimed architect Frank Gehry, has been named building of the year by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust. The Los Angeles-based architect, best known for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed the Maggie Cancer Care Centre to react against the institutional environment of hospitals. A small but dramatic building, which captures Gehry's irrepressible architectural imagination and turns it to a real social purpose, it has his signature metal roof, in stainless steel, and focuses around a tower. The first Maggie Cancer Care Centre was established by Maggie Keswick Jencks, after she was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 1995.

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