OMA's Maggie's Gartnavel wins 2012 Doolin prize

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The RIAS (Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland) has announced OMA as the tenth recipient of the prestigious Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award for the firm’s “welcoming, light and spacious” design of Maggie’s Gartnavel in Glasgow.

Serving as an exemplar for alternative healthcare design, OMA’s single story composition for the cancer care center laces together a series of interlocking rectangular spaces that form around a lush courtyard. Transparent walls of the building’s light-filled interior promenade connect patients directly to nature, as the building accommodates for the complex needs of the facility by providing spaces of interaction, personal privacy, and discrete counseling rooms, along with private nooks and corners. A notable characteristic of Maggie’s Gartnavel is the rich use of materials, from the flush inlaid timber and concrete ceiling to the simplistic concrete exterior and expansive floor-to-ceiling glass walls.

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Cite: Karissa Rosenfield. "OMA's Maggie's Gartnavel wins 2012 Doolin prize" 09 Nov 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/291823/omas-maggies-gartnavel-wins-2012-doolin-prize> ISSN 0719-8884

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