I didn’t want my cancer diagnosis to affect my relationships. But of course it did
Hilary Osborne
Being seriously ill tests you and those around you to the limit, says Hilary Osborne, the Guardian’s money and consumer editor
June 2021
Maggie’s centre, Southampton review – thoughtfulness and calm abound
By turns easeful, communal and private, Amanda Levete’s elegant new Maggie’s centre defers to the New Forest-inspired garden that surrounds it
September 2020
The Guardian view on good style: it makes life better
Editorial: Design is all around us – let it be beautiful and feed our soul
August 2020
Maggie's Centre, St James's hospital, Leeds review – a safe place for flamboyance
Thomas Heatherwick has risen to an important challenge with this latest in a series of bespoke, calming environments for people with cancer
January 2020
Captain Scarlet! Ab Rogers brings a rhapsody of red to a hospital car park
It was the first hospital in the world dedicated to cancer. Now Royal Marsden is home to an uplifting Maggie’s centre full of zing and zest. Ab Rogers clearly shares his dad Richard’s love of colour
June 2017
Maggie’s cancer centre in Oldham: a balm for the senses
The 21st Maggie’s cancer centre stays true to the group’s founding concept – a beautifully designed space offering support to patients and their families
May 2013
Maggie's cancer care centre, Newcastle – review
Ted Cullinan, the veteran architect behind a new Maggie's cancer care centre in Newcastle, talks about his lifelong love of building and the importance of climate, composition – and croquet, writes Rowan Moore
July 2012
Exclusive: RIBA Stirling prize shortlist revealed
A theatre, a laboratory, a bank tower, an art gallery, a cancer centre and the Olympic Stadium are up for Britain's foremost architectural award, writes Rowan Moore
June 2012
RIBA's Stirling prize longlist 2012 – in pictures
Riba announces 50 best buildings on longlist for Stirling prize
December 2011
Constructive criticism
Constructive criticism: the week in architecture
Jonathan Glancey: It's all about train stations this week, with the Tube bringing beauty to Battersea and Canada Water unveiling its flashy new library
February 2011
Maggie's centres: how one woman's vision is changing cancer treatment
Maggie Keswick Jencks created the blueprint for the cancer-care centres named after her. Her friends and family talk to Kate Kellaway about a remarkable woman
May 2010
Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres
As plans are unveiled for six more Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, Rowan Moore asks: do they really need such star architects to build them?
October 2009
Saturday interview
Laura Lee: 'People say the building hugged them'
Laura Lee on how cancer charity Maggie's came to be shortlisted for a major architecture prize
July 2009
'I saw the fear in his eyes'
When Kirsty Wark lost her father to lung cancer, she was moved to become a patron of Maggie's. Here, she talks about hope, friendship and final farewells
April 2009
Michelle Obama joins Sarah Brown on visit to cancer centre
The Michelle and Sarah show visits Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre in west London
October 2006
Better by design
For people seriously ill with cancer, a positive outlook is essential. Yet so much of their time is spent in soul-destroying waiting rooms and strip-lit clinics. How much better for a patient to 'feel hugged by a building'. Simon Garfield reveals why Zaha Hadid's new Maggie's Centre - the architect's first commission on home soil - will be a fitting tribute to her late friend, Maggie Keswick Jencks.
October 2001
Maggie's hopes live on
Cancer centre expansion earns Derek Douglas top award.
