Maggie's Cancer Care Centre in the grounds of Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, has won the 2004 Building of the Year award from the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust.
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Credit: THE SCOTSMAN
Designed by the architect Frank Gehry, the building is named after Maggie Keswick Jencks, the Scottish artist, designer, and landscape gardener, who died of breast cancer in 1995. The building cost £1.3m ($2.4m; €2m), and Gehry gave his services free because of his friendship with the artist.
The building is the third in a series of 10 being established around the country by the organisation set up in memory of Keswick Jencks.
Announcing the award last week, Lord St John of Fawsley, the trust's chairman, said: “People suffering major threats to health do not wish to be written off but rather they need constructive and loving care. Above all, they need a place of beauty in which to rest.
“We all owe a great aesthetic and social debt to Maggie, Frank, and Charles [Keswick Jencks' widower] for this magnificent contribution to the relief of human suffering.”