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Highlands Maggie's Centre by Charles JencksThe oval spirals - one of them a building, two of them landscaped mounds - together form the latest "Maggie's Centre", one of a burgeoning chain of support centres for people affected by cancer.
The latest one in the Highlands is by Glasgow architects Page and Park, their second.
You can just see them sweating blood to cut it with the international elite.
You don't often get the chance to design an upwardly- spiralling building, a mini-Guggenheim.
David Page is happy to admit that Jencks allowed him into a world of larger possibilities than usual.
Moreover, the two collaborated.
Jencks, who has established a reputation as a land artist, did the landscape here.
Those familiar with his famous "garden of cosmic speculation", designed with Maggie at Portrack House in Scotland, will recognise the hand at work here: symbolic mounds and patterns cut into the grass.
In this case the metaphor being employed is of the division of cells and the way that cells exchange information with each other.
Jencks also had an influence on the design of the building itself, working with Page to develop a place where architecture and landscape are all part of the same overall composition.
The lenticular shape of the building, its stepped green-copper flanks, relate directly to Jencks' hillocks with their paths lazily
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