3rd Jun 2024

Maggie's Southampton wins RIBA South Award

Congratulations to our project team who worked on the Maggie’s cancer centre in Southampton, which has been recognised at the RIBA South Awards.

Our Maggie's Southampton project saw a hospital car park next to the Oncology unit at Southampton General Hospital transformed into a peaceful sanctuary gracefully surrounded by a miniature New Forest.

Judged and presented locally, RIBA Regional Awards celebrate great architecture across the UK.

For 50 years the RIBA Awards have championed and celebrated the best architecture in the UK and around the world.

Successful projects reflect changes and innovations in architecture, but at their core display a commitment to designing and developing buildings and spaces for the improvement and enhancement of people’s lives.

RIBA said: “Built using structural glazed ceramic blocks and ethereal mirrors, its materials betray a fragile robustness which emulates the spirit of the Maggie’s Centre. The plan is archetypal, with four walls radiating to create four distinct spaces, each with their own aspect and relationship to the landscape beyond."

At the centre of this architectural compass, a kitchen and table, set beneath a plunging rooflight, provide a point of communion. From here, you can easily navigate to a soft variety of spaces, from intimate rooms to generous salons. The whole centre acts as a public living room that allows people to privately process the trauma of living with cancer.

RIBA

The Centre for the South at Southampton has been designed to be a ‘home from home’, reflecting and responding to the needs of its local community. The design is subtle, understated and imbued with light, to lift the weight from the shoulders of all who visit and work there. 

Maggie’s Southampton features bespoke ceramics, manufactured by Ceràmica Cumella. This inspired blockwork captures the changing light, offering an ethereal reflection of the New Forest landscape. The team were proactive in procuring samples of the ceramics, and constructed a sample panel of the completed product, including the top coping units. This enabled the team to highlight various issues early on, ensuring there were no detrimental impacts on the construction programme. 

Find out more about our partnership with Maggie's

Our corporate partnership

It’s more than a decade since we started working with Maggie’s, as well as constructing many of its centres, we've raised more than £1,000,000 for the charity.

Maggies cancer care centres

Engineering Excellence for Maggie’s first Cancer Care Centre in Wales

Our expertise overcame a challenging design to deliver this unique healthcare project at Singleton Hospital, Swansea.

Cancer care centre Maggie’s, Swansea

Innovation key to delivering Maggie’s at The Christie

Our construction knowledge and know-how was key in helping realise the complex architectural vision for Maggie’s at The Christie in Manchester.

Maggies Cancer Care Centre, Manchester

Heritage and complex projects expertise delivers Maggie’s Barts

Our Special Projects delivered this technically complex healthcare project within live hospital campus and protected it’s Grade I listed neighbours.

Cancer care centre Maggie’s, Barts

Enabling Maggie’s to support cancer care at The Royal Marsden

Careful planning and meticulous collaboration allowed us to complete this design-led scheme on a busy working hospital site.

Maggie’s Royal Marsden

A truly extraordinary building for Maggie's Yorkshire

Built amongst a cluster of medical buildings at St James’ University Hospital in Leeds, Maggie’s Yorkshire is a cancer care centre like no other.

Maggie's Cancer Care Centre, Yorkshire

Delivering award winning Maggie's Southampton

Our Special Projects team delivered this verdant ‘New Forest’ inspired Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres at Southampton’s General Hospital.

Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre, Southampton
  • Three man from Kettering wearing orang Maggies logo T-Shirt
  • Exterior view of Maggies Centre Swansea At Twilight
  • Exterior view of Maggie’s at The Christie in Manchester, a timber and glass pavilion designed by Lord Norman Foster, showcasing its modern architectural design.
  • Exterior view of Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, featuring its distinctive ‘lantern-like’ design with curving glass and concrete elements
  • The exterior garden view of Maggie's Royal Marsden, with lush greenery, walking paths.
  • Exterior view of Maggie’s Yorkshire at St James’ University Hospital in Leeds, featuring its trio of interconnected timber pots and landscaped roofs.
  • The garden at Maggie’s Southampton, filled with lush greenery, perennials, and trees such as birch, Scots pine, and rowan, creating a tranquil environment

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