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If cleanliness is next to godliness, then the Manser Practice is destined to pass through the pearly gates with its new NGS Macmillan Unit, integrating on one site all the Chesterfield Royal Hospital’s cancer care services. The £10 million purpose-built structure is one of the first buildings in the UK to be clad in Corian, chosen by the firm because of its ‘clean, contemporary look’, malleability, robustness and low maintenance. Because it can be thermoformed, jointed and laser-cut, it could be used on the curved exterior facade as well as internally, creating a material link from outside to in.

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Tuesday 20 June 2023, 09:00 – 11:15 am

PiP Offices and Workspace Design webinar

Passionate about public space? The RIBA Journal is inviting architects to take part in an intensive one-day design workshop to develop fresh thinking

Passionate about public space? The RIBA Journal is inviting architects to take part in an intensive one-day design workshop to develop fresh thinking

London’s most lavishly finished building of its kind since the war, Michael Rosenauer’s 1953 Time Life building was packed with contemporary art and design

Time Life building, New Bond Street, London, 1953

A new book investigates the collaborative route to better design and diverse, inclusive practice – a way of working where one fosters the other

How working together effectively helps design to take on today’s big issues

Want to create a mobile City of Culture performance space, imagine housing that reconnects older people with their communities or design an urban space in ‘Swindon’s front garden’? These are the latest architecture competitions and contracts from across the industry

Latest: RIBA launches mobile arts venue design contest for Bradford City of Culture 2025