‘A space of their own’: how cancer centres designed by top architects bring hope to patients

Exhibition at the V&A Dundee celebrates Maggie’s Centres created by Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and others Maggie Keswick Jencks received her weekly breast cancer treatment in a windowless neon-lit room in Edinburgh’s Western general hospital. Her husband, the renowned landscape designer Charles, later described it as a kind of “architectural aversion therapy”. It was then, in the early 1990s, that the Scottish artist and garden designer imagined her own blueprint that would all...

By Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent