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20 November, 2008
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Published: 17 November, 2006
MAGGIE’S Cancer Care Centre in Inverness has won the most valuable architectural prize in Europe. The £25,000 award by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland was presented last night to the winner of the 2006 Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland. Designed by Page and Park Architects of Glasgow, Maggie’s was selected from a shortlist of 10 projects. The prize is given annually in memory of Scottish architect Andrew Doolan, who founded the award in 2002.
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Professor Simon Unwin, of Dundee University School of Architecture, said architecturally the building was a tour de force. “It is a successful and poetic collaboration of architecture and landscape design, and brings bright and exciting relief to the adjacent hospital buildings with their usual utilitarian dullness,” he said. “This is a building that speaks of aspiration and healing, and in doing so it speaks also of humanity.” The building was designed for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres, founded by architectural critic Charles Jencks following the loss of his wife Maggie Keswick Jencks to the disease. The building in Inverness has already picked up a clutch of accolades including a Scottish Design Award in May and a Royal Institute of British Architects Award in June. |
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