They are unique, architecturally striking and linked by design qualities: light, beauty, openness, intimacy, views, connectedness to nature and ‘homely’ in space and feeling. Many of the growing network of Maggie’s, currently at 30, in the United Kingdom, Barcelona, Hong Kong and Tokyo, have been designed by ‘starchitects’ including Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Rem Koolhaas, Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid. Instead, Keswick and Jencks planned an alternative space with views of nature, where patients could sit peacefully between bouts of noxious therapy.
They’re intended to be the opposite of the windowless, neon-lit chemotherapy units found in so many general hospitals. The centres for cancer patients and their families were established by architect Maggie Keswick, who died of cancer in 1993, and her husband, Charles Jencks. Prisons could learn something from their design principles. Maggie’s are health centres designed to be beautiful and healing. But it could be what’s needed to deliver good neighbours, friends, colleagues and parents back into the community: PHILIPVILE All rights reserved Terminally ill people will be released regardless of the crime committed, while blind prisoners and those “who are physically challenged that they cannot be catered for in a prison” had their remaining sentences fully remitted.An architecturally designed prison with light, views and nature seems fanciful. Others thanked President Emmerson Mnangagwa for showing mercy.Īll females imprisoned for non-violent crimes and who served a third of their sentences are to be released. A small group wore graduation robes after receiving diplomas in bible studies.Īt Chikurubi Maximum Prison, freed women prisoners hugged prison officers, while men rushed for the back of an open truck waiting to transport them from the jail. Some people of advanced age walked with the aid of crutches. Song, dance and prayers marked the event.
Most of the time we would eat food prepared without cooking oil,” said the 71-year-old, boarding a prison bus taking him and other amnesty beneficiaries away from Harare Central Prison. A beneficiary of the latest amnesty, John Mafararikwa, who was serving a 17-month sentence for theft, expressed relief.
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