London’s new purpose-built University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre, which has five floors, each tailored to investigating and treating specific cancers, features Tarkett floorcoverings, including ‘some unique and rather special elements’.
Creating the flooring required ‘the exceptional skills’ of the Tarkett Floorcraft design team, using sonic cutting, and ‘a broad spectrum’ of Tarkett’s Micra Premium and linoleum ranges. The University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s arts curator, Guy Noble, said: “A number of famous and significant British artists – Grayson Perry, Rob Ryan, Sir Peter Blake, Pure Evil, and Morag Myerscough – who were approached for their reputation for creating engaging, challenging, and inspirational work, have created floor designs for the waiting area on each level.” Each artist’s design was accurately re-created by the Floorcraft team and expertly installed by Axiom Contract Flooring. Nick Edwards, Axiom MD, said: “Each design was delivered in sections or individual strips, and specific panels were laid into pre-marked grids to ensure exact placement. Thanks to Floorcraft’s precision cutting technology, and our installers’ skill, and attention to detail, we were able to ensure that the extremely complicated, intricate designs matched perfectly.”
