The 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize-winner has been working with the cancer support charity on the plans for the new permanent facility on the Addenbrookes Hospital campus for nearly five years.The 484m purpose-built structure will replace an existing, temporary Maggies Centre housed within a block built to accommodate key worker flats.The cancer organisations other award-winning schemes have been designed by a roster of architectures biggest names, including Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Amanda Levete and Daniel Libeskind.AdvertisementNall McLaughlins proposal will involve demolition of a two-storey NHS administration building. The practice had looked at both a total retention and retrofit, and a partial retention and extension. However, both were ruled out after early design studies.The split-level scheme has been designed with a pinwheel plan rotating around a central staircase, liftshaft and lightwell. An olive tree will be planted in this space.Each of the centres mono-pitched roofs feature high-level clerestory windows.The design team said the facility would provide people affected by cancer with comforting and inspiring spaces to decompress from the clinical hospital setting, seek support and take part in activities.The landscape proposal, drawn up by Tom Stuart-Smith Studio, aims to enhance the existing woodland setting to the north of the site as well as introduce a welcoming entrance approach and expanded south-facing garden.AdvertisementIn 2022 Nall McLaughlin won the RIBA Stirling Prize for his new library at Cambridges Magdalene College, three miles to the south of the Addenbrookes site.Construction work is expected to start next year.Project dataLocation Long Road, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge,CB2 0ADLocal authority Cambridge City CouncilType of project Cancer Support CentreClient Maggie'sArchitect Nall McLaughlin ArchitectsLandscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith StudioPlanning consultantBidwellsStructural engineer Smith & WallworkM&E consultant Skelley & Couch Skelly & CouchQuantity surveyor Gardiner & TheobaldGross internal floor area 484m
