Raised on a series of glulaminated timber columns and surrounded by woodland, Wilkinson Eyre Architects' Maggie's Oxford Centre is an angular, tricorn-shaped building akin to a treehouse. Photography: Julian Abrahahams
 

The Churchill hospital is positioned on the outskirts of Oxford, past the throng of the city, in the space where the landscape begins to open out. At the edge of its car park, the ground falls away abruptly, a small brook threads its way through hornbeam and hawthorn trees and one swaps tarmac and plant rooms for woodland. 

Above this, raised on a series of glulaminated timber columns, is Wilkinson Eyre Architects' Maggie's Oxford Centre. This is the eighteenth centre of its kind to be built since the charity opened its first centre in Edinburgh eighteen years ago. Since then, some of the world's best architects have lent their skills to designing the centres, which have developed their own typology: somewhere between a home, social club and a place of medical respite, where patients, friends and family of those affected by cancer can receive practical and emotional support. Maggie's motto is the belief that people should not lose the joy of living in the fear of dying....Continue Reading

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