By turns easeful, communal and private, Amanda Levete’s elegant new Maggie’s centre defers to the New Forest-inspired garden that surrounds it. 

The new Maggie’s cancer care centre in suburban Southampton, it is the landscape, which occupies almost three-quarters of the site, which drives the design. Sarah Price, who co-designed the 2012 gardens at London’s Olympic Park, has made a corner of a hospital car park into a garden inspired by the ecology of the nearby New Forest – pines, birches, mosses, ferns and woodland and heathland fauna. The planting is loose, shaggy and drifting, artfully casual. The idea is to make the garden seem as if it has always been there...

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