Building of the week: Maggie’s, Leeds

In previous posts I’ve written about biophilic architecture, a movement that creates buildings with a connection to nature. Through their forms, materials, views, the way they use light and shadow, they are places that we feel at home in. I’ve also written about how buildings like that can have therapeutic effects, demonstrated most spectacularly by this hospital in Singapore that is designed to lower blood pressure and help patients relax and heal.

This is another example, this time from Le...