Healthcare Design website offers photo tour of the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre, Harrogate District Hospital
The Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre, Harrogate District Hospital, is a new outpatient oncology center in Harrogate, England takes the form of two "pebbles," according to an article and photo tour on the Healthcare Design website.
The non-institutional shapes avoid long, linear corridors while helping to provide identity and a sense of place for the center’s key functions, the article said.
February 3, 2015
Topic Area: Architecture
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