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Captain Scarlet! Ab Rogers brings a rhapsody of red to a hospital car park

It was the first hospital in the world dedicated to cancer. Now Royal Marsden is home to an uplifting Maggie’s centre full of zing and zest. Ab Rogers clearly shares his dad Richard’s love of colour

Dressed in a red jumper, burgundy cords and bright orange trainers, with pink socks and a pink collar visible beneath his orange overcoat, Ab Rogers is hard to miss. He is standing outside his first completed building, a new Maggie’s cancer care centre in Sutton, London, that equally revels in reds. “I like red,” he says, in case it wasn’t obvious. Behind him, a carmine-coloured building emerges from a cherry-red one, which in turn nestles inside a postbox-red enclosure, itself emerging from the biggest structure of all, which is the colour of a ripe tomato.

Standing like a group of oversized shipping containers tumbling out of each other in a curved huddle, the building is a striking thing to encounter at the back of the Royal Marsden hospital’s car park. On closer inspection, the buildings are not ribbed steel, but profiled terracotta tiles that glisten in the low winter sun, wrapping up the walls and over the rooftops to frame large expanses of glass, bringing warm light into the open-plan interior. It is a cheery foil to the jumble of large institutional buildings that form the rambling warren of the hospital, providing an optimistic, welcoming presence for patients.

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