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Beautiful walled garden at Maggie’s centre, Lanarkshire

Without a beautiful old stone wall it’s always tricky to make a walled garden look truly appealing. However, Reiach and Hall, an Edinburgh-based architectural practice, have pulled it off at the latest Maggie’s Centre which opened in Lanarkshire in 2014. Neil Gillespie of Reiach and Hall says: ‘ A Maggie’s brief is challenging for many reasons, it is a unique building type. A Maggie’s is all about a different kind

Maggie's Centres: the best of places, the worst of times…

‘Who is Maggie?’ is a question asked by many visitors to Maggie’s Centres.  The leading cancer care centres started in Scotland following one woman’s experience of her own diagnosis of cancer.  In 1993, the experience of trying to find a temporary, poorly signposted clinic added to the deep distress Maggie Keswick Jencks’ felt on being told her that breast cancer had spread. Immediately after receiving the news that she had