Project / 2024

Maggie’s Centre Hong Kong

by Heather Banerd

Maggie’s Centres were one of the early pioneers of salutogenic design. They were the brainchild of Maggie Jencks, who, like so many others before her, felt the psychological toll of the hospital environment during her battle with cancer.

Maggie’s Centre Hong Kong was designed with the relationship between indoors and outdoors driving the form. Photos courtesy of Ronald Lu & Partners and Kalson Ho < > < > < >

In her memoir, A View from the Front Line, she wrote, “Simply finding your way round is exhausting… Overhead (sometimes even neon) lighting, interior spaces with no views out and miserable seating against walls all contribute to extreme mental and physical enervation. Patients who arrive relatively hopeful soon ...

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