During the last few months of Maggie Keswick Jencks’s life, she and her husband, the architecture critic and landscape designer Charles Jencks, hatched the idea of cancer-caring centers. Located adjacent to hospitals, patients could casually enter these welcoming, almost domestic spaces to access the help they couldn’t find at the neighboring institution.
In August 1994, Western General Hospital, in Edinburgh, Scotland, allowed Keswick Jencks to develop one of these unprecedented facilities. She died in July 1995 and did not see that cancer-caring center open in a historic stable block near Western General in November of the following year. “She never imagined more than one,” adds Jencks, who named the center in Maggie’s honor.
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