Maggie’s Leeds is a medical facility located in Leeds, United Kingdom, designed in 2017 by Heatherwick Studio.

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Maggie?s Centres are places where people with cancer, and their friends and families, can go to find free practical and emotional support. They follow the approach to care set out by Maggie Keswick Jencks ? a belief that people should not ?lose the joy of living in the fear of dying?. Heatherwick Studio was commissioned to design a new centre at St James?s University Hospital in Leeds. Jimmy?s, as it is known locally, is Europe?s largest teaching hospital and home to the Leeds Cancer Centre, which serves a diverse community across Yorkshire. The hospital staff had been working to improve the experience for patients; bringing a piano into the Bexley Wing, for example, and hanging paintings from the city gallery. The studio wanted to support this by providing further respite from the clinical environment. The brief was to create ?a home that people wouldn?t dare build for themselves? to welcome an expected 110 visitors each day. The site chosen for the new Centre was the last patch of greenery at the hospital ? a grassy hill next to the car park, bounded by roads on two sides and surrounded by large buildings. The six-metre difference in level across the site would typically dictate a building dug into the slope ? instead, the studio chose to follow its natural contours, so that at the highest point, visitors would have views of the ...