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Architect for the Elizabeth Montgomerie Building Announced |
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Feb 15, 2010: Colin Montgomerie Announces Architect for the Elizabeth Montgomerie Building at Maggie's Lanarkshire, on the Anniversary of the Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation.
Colin Montgomerie is celebrating a successful first year of the Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation with a dinner at the Hotel du Vin in Glasgow to thank generous supporters. There is now 75% percent of the funding in place to build the Maggie's Lanarkshire centre.
The Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation was established by the Scots golfer Colin Montgomerie in memory of his late mother Elizabeth, to provide support to people affected by cancer. In its first project, The Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation is raising funds to build a new Centre in conjunction with the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre in Lanarkshire to provide practical and emotional support to cancer patients, their families and carers. The Elizabeth Montgomerie Building will be based at Monklands Hospital, Airdrie.
Colin Montgomerie said: "I am overwhelmed that one year on from launching the Elizabeth Montgomerie Foundation we already have seventy five percent of the funds needed to build the Elizabeth Montgomerie building for Maggie's Lanarkshire. My mother's cancer had such a devastating effect on my family and, having visited Maggie's Centres myself, I know that the care they provide would have made a huge difference to us. It means a great deal to me that individuals and businesses, have given so generously of their time and money. For example, today I received a cheque for £100,000 from the Hotel du Vin/Malmaison Group - it was an amazing feeling to join so many staff from the group walking the West Highland Way last November to raise much needed funds towards Maggie's Lanarkshire. I am also very pleased to be able to announce tonight that the acclaimed architect Neil Gillespie, is going to design the centre. We look forward to working with Neil and his team."
Architect Neil Gillespie of Riach and Hall, is known for his designs for buildings such as The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness and the Collective Gallery in Edinburgh.
Neil Gillespie said: "This is an inspiring and exciting project to be working on. A Maggie's brief is challenging for many reasons, because it is a building type that is really quite unique. It's about care and the scale of the building is very domestic. Yet it's not a house and it's not a hospital. All Maggie's plans revolve around the kitchen table, around having somewhere to go the moment you enter the building. So the plan develops from the kitchen table out to courtyards, trees and beyond."
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