ALA has completed its Maggie's cancer care centre for Southampton General Hospital. Amanda Levete's practice described the centre, which opened this month, as a "woodland oasis" Almost three-quarters of the site has been used to create four gardens intended to reflect the ecology of the nearby New Forest. Levete said: "We have imagined that a piece of garden has been transported from the New Forest into the midst of the hospital's car park, bringing serenity and a bit of magic to the place." Landscape designer Sarah Price, who co-designed the gardens at the Olympic Park in 2012, used native species including wood anemones, orchids, wild garlic, mosses and ferns. Maggie's chief executive Laura Lee said ALA had "interpreted our brief beautifully, and their exacting attention to detail has created a stunning building with large windows that flood the centre with natural light"
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