Projects: Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, Glasgow

By Ike Ijeh2020-02-12T06:00:00

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It has got a beauty spa, a wedding reception venue and even a honeymoon suite, but this is not a boutique hotel

It is unusual for the clients of a healthcare building to insist that they “categorically did not want to appoint a healthcare architect” for their new project. But this was exactly the position taken by Glasgow’s Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice when it decided to move from its site in the centre of Glasgow to a new, yet-to-be-determined site elsewhere in the city.

“If we had hired a healthcare architect we would have got a hospital, and that wasn’t what we wanted,” hospice chief executive Rhona Baillie recalls. “We wanted a fresh pair of eyes, an architect who didn’t come with a preconceived idea of what a hospice was.

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