Maggie's Center, London

The Maggie’s Centre in London was built to plans drawn up by the New York-based architectural practice Studio Daniel Libeskind. Like many Maggie’s Centres, this project combines distinctive architecture with a spatial concept tailored to its intended use.

With its curved, sloping external façade and roof garden, the building posed particular challenges in terms of design, fabrication and assembly. A key component of the project was the realisation of the undulating, free-form façade using timber construction.

The free-form building envelope was constructed from individual curved components. The structural challenge lay in precisely translating the complex geometry of the architectural design into feasible timber construction elements. Around 620 m² of laminated veneer timber was used for both the timber frame elements and the façade panels of the free-form façade.

This was the third time that ZÜBLIN Timber had been involved in a Maggie’s Centre project. Following the sites in Oldham and Oxford, the building in London became another location for the foundation.

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