Zaha Hadid / Maggie Center: Center for the Treatment of Cancer.
To the Iraqi architect, Zaha Hadid, gandora the 2004 Pritzker Prize, is the center for the treatment against cancer, Maggie Center. Located at the Hospital Kirkcaldy, Five, Scotland, was recently inaugurated in November 2006.
The center is a unit attached to the hospital, for people who are somehow related to the disease of cancer, patients, families and specialists, are in Maggie Center a gathering place for sharing experiences, treatments and experiences, accompanied by a unique architecture and interior specialty own projects by Zaha Hadid.
The project, located within the Hospital Kirkcaldy, is positioned precisely at a transition point between the Main Building and the Park Hospital, in a fairly steep ravine, preceded by a parking space. The goal was to be just a transition point between these two spaces, creating a building on the one hand more tightly closed and wrapped itself around the hospital premises, and in contrast, a building as a gateway to the countryside the parks and the natural gorge.
The cancer center, Maggie, is a charity promoted by the writer Charles Jencks Architecture, which began with the construction of the first, on behalf of his late wife Maggie Keswick, who died of cancer 11 years ago . Maggie Draft Center in the town of Five was commissioned Hadid, both for its significant reputation in the circuit of the RIBA Architects, for his outstanding career both in England and in the whole world.
