Welcome to Maggie's Glasgow

Maggie's Glasgow (The Gatehouse) is situated on Dumbarton Road, at the entrance to the University of Glasgow beside Kelvingrove Park. The centre, the first in Glasgow, provides a comprehensive cancer support programme for people and their families affected by cancer across Glasgow and surrounding areas.

The centre is open 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.

With support of the Evening Times we raised £500,000 and secured a grant of £290,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund and a further donation from Historic Scotland.

Find out more about the design of Maggie's Glasgow by David Park of Page \ Park, the firm that also designed Maggie's Highlands. Or, continue reading below for details of Maggie's Gartnavel.

Find out more about the impact of the cancer support programme Maggie's offers in this video.

Maggie's Gartnavel

Maggie’s Gartnavel will be the second Maggie’s Centre in Glasgow, following on from the centre at the Western Infirmary.

One of Maggie’s primary aims is to make it as easy as possible for people living with cancer to access their local Centre. Thus, when the Beatson Oncology Centre announced that it was moving from the Western Infirmary to a new site at Gartnavel Hospital, it was natural for Maggie’s to investigate if there would be a site nearby.

About the area

Maggie’s Gartnavel will serve the West of Scotland Cancer Network, which has a population of 2.5 million people and approximately 4,350 new diagnoses of cancer per annum.

The Architect

“We accepted the commission with eagerness. I don’t think it should be a building that challenges people to live better; rather it should have a direct effect on the people who use it. The space we have is great because it is linked to the existing hospital, but far enough away from it for us to create another world. It has both privacy and a central position; both sheltered and slightly exposed. The centre will have a holistic feel and hopefully will provide respite and comfort for people.”

Rem Koolhaas of OMA

Design

The Pritzker Prize winning architect, Rem Koolhaas of OMA, has designed a single-level building in the form of a ring of interlocking rooms surrounding an internal landscaped courtyard.

Seemingly haphazardly arranged, the building is actually a carefully considered composition of spaces responding to the needs of a Maggie's Centre. As opposed to a series of isolated rooms, the building is designed as a sequence of interconnected L-shaped figures in plan that create clearly distinguished areas – an arrangement that minimises the need for corridors and hallways and allows the rooms to flow from one to another.

The plan has been organised for the spaces to feel casual, almost carefree, allowing one to feel at ease and at home; part of an empathetic community of people.

Landscape Architect

Lily Jencks, daughter of Maggie’s Founders, Maggie Keswick Jencks and Charles Jencks, will design the internal courtyard plantings and the wooded glades areas surrounding the centre.