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.
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the irony is that "soul-destroying" pretty well sums up the feeling i get from almost everything zaha has ever done. and after spending more than my fair share of time in waiting rooms with my seriously-ill-with-cancer mother, i think that neither gray-taupe upholstery nor aggressivley angled concrete and mullion-less glass are really going to help people feel better. in my experience, people help people feel better, not concrete.
more in the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1&xml=/arts/2006/11/04/bazaha04.xml
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