{"id":2150,"date":"2025-12-11T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:26:15","slug":"quiet-hope-frank-gehrys-maggies-centre-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theboudoirvixen.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/quiet-hope-frank-gehrys-maggies-centre-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Hope: Frank Gehry\u2019s Maggie\u2019s Centre Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this month, news of Frank Gehry’s passing<\/a> prompted an outpouring of tributes to the architect behind flamboyant museums<\/a>, concert halls<\/a>, and sinuous residential complexes. Rather than revisit that well-charted terrain, it is worth pausing on a more contemplative work in his oeuvre: Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre in Hong Kong<\/a>. Quiet, optimistic, and calibrated for everyday resilience<\/a>, the building reflects multiple registers of Gehry’s intent: a commitment to positivity and survival\u2014and, more personally, an architect’s own reckoning with loss and end-of-life care.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The remark reframes Maggie’s Hong Kong<\/a> as more than a commission; it suggests a design process shaped by grief and turned toward comfort, dignity, and the possibility of hope\u2014an ethos that aligns closely with the organization’s mission.<\/p>\n

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