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This week, Sonia Soltani reports on an aesthetically stimulating lift shaft that helped a teaching centre meet access requirements while also cutting its budget 25%. Plus we have boilers, air-conditioning and other unsung heroes of the products world

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Kisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre
2012-07-18T01:00:00Z
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, ‘dragon-tailed’ cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK’s 13th Maggie’s Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers James
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The ‘cosmic whirlpool’ and other Maggie’s Centres
2012-07-17T01:00:00Z
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
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Solving the panel puzzle
2012-07-17T01:00:00Z
The Maggie’s Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.

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