Splashpoint Leisure Centre is a

leisure centre A leisure centre in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia (also called aquatic centres), Singapore and Canada is a purpose-built building or site, usually owned and operated by the city, borough council or municipal district council, where people ...

located in the centre of

Worthing Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Hov ...

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...

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. It contains a 25-metre long pool and gymnasium. Designed by

WilkinsonEyre WilkinsonEyre is an international architecture practice based in London, England. In 1983 Chris Wilkinson (architect), Chris Wilkinson founded Chris Wilkinson Architects, he partnered with Jim Eyre (architect), Jim Eyre in 1987 and the practice w ...

it won an award at the

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in 2013. WilkinsonEyre won an

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held by the

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, which attracted 109 expressions of interest. It was opened by

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swimmer Ellie Simmonds on 20 June 2013.

Location

Splashpoint Leisure Centre lies between Brighton Road to the north and the town's beach and promenade to the south. To the west lies

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and its grounds, while to the east lies Bayside, a residential high-rise building.

Architecture

According to

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, principal architect at WilkinsonEyre, the "building seeks to draw on forms already present in the town, taking on the undulating linearity of the ranks of surrounding terraced houses and the breakwater groynes on the beach."

References

External links

Splashpoint Leisure Centre on South Downs Leisure website
{{Worthing Buildings and structures in Worthing 2013 establishments in England

Location

Architecture

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