The Maggie’s Centre Gartnavel by OMA
18/11/2010.
Construction begins on OMA's Maggie’s Centre Gartnavel. [Glasgow - Scotland] UK
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA
OMA is developing the new Maggie’s Centre for the Gartnavel General Hospital of Glasgow, in Scotland.
Image courtesy of OMA.
Image courtesy of OMA.
Image courtesy of OMA.
Image courtesy of OMA.
Located near the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre, the second largest oncology centre in the UK, the new Maggie’s Centre Gartnavel will provide a space for practical and emotional support for people with cancer, their families and friends. Inserted in a glade of trees, the building will have a surface of 534 m2 and will be constituted by a series of blocks that, fitting one into another, form a chain that roundly closes itself.
The project, led by partners-in-charge Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon, and associate-in-charge Richard Hollington, will be completed in summer 2011. The Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres foundation, founded by Maggie Keswick Jencks and Charles Jencks, opened the first Maggie’s Centre in Edinburgh in 1996, and has since commissioned a series of innovative buildings designed by architects as Zaha Hadid or Frank Gehry. The foundation approached OMA to design the Glasgow site in 2007.
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Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is a leading international partnership practising architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA's buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. OMA is led by eight partners – Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen van Loon, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duijn, Jason Long, and Managing Partner-Architect David Gianotten – and maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia.
OMA-designed buildings currently under construction are the renovation of Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe) in Berlin, The Factory in Manchester, Hangzhou Prism, the CMG Times Center in Shenzhen and the Simone Veil Bridge in Bordeaux.
OMA’s completed projects include Taipei Performing Arts Centre (2022), Norra Tornen in Stockholm (2020), Axel Springer Campus in Berlin (2020), MEETT Toulouse Exhibition and Convention Centre (2020), Galleria in Gwanggyo (2020), nhow RAI Hotel in Amsterdam (2020), a new building for Brighton College (2020), and Potato Head Studios in Bali (2020). Earlier buildings include Fondazione Prada in Milan (2018), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow (2015), Fondazione Prada in Milan (2015); G-Star Headquarters in Amsterdam (2014); Shenzhen Stock Exchange (2013); De Rotterdam (2013), CCTV Headquarters in Beijing (2012), New Court, the headquarters for Rothschild Bank in London (2011); Milstein Hall at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York (2011); and Maggie's Centre, a cancer care centre in Glasgow (2011). Earlier buildings include Casa da Música in Porto (2005), Seattle Central Library (2004), and Netherlands Embassy in Berlin (2003).
