Retail and leisure

2006-05-19T00:00:00+01:00

With suppliers introducing such innovations as walls and ceilings of solid light and light transmitting concrete, Joannah Connolly and Sonia Soltani report on how retail specifiers are turning to showrooms rather than catalogues to check out the latest products.

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Kisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre

2012-07-18T01:00:00Z By Tony Whitehead

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 By Tony Whitehead

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 By Tony Whitehead

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.