Bletchley Leisure Centre
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The pyramid pool in its setting
Bill Toomey Download Original
Leisure centre containing a sports hall, squash courts, bowling green, youth centre, cafeteria, bars and a swimming pool housed in a distinctive pyramid shaped building
A glass reinforced plastic (GRP) raised and covered walkway gives first floor connection to the leisure centre from an existing multi-storey car park. This main entrance at first floor level leads to a concourse and arcade from which all of the centres main facilities are displayed.
The leisure centre is arranged in a cruciform plan. A fully glazed central spine block is attached to three brick boxes - the main hall, the bowls wing and the gymnasium/squash block, and the pyramidal swimming pool hall.
The free form curved leisure pool is enclosed by a pyramid constructed of a galvanised steel space frame structure and covered with double-skin bronze acrylic sheets.
The centre was demolished in 2010.
Data
- Begun: Sep 1971
- Completed: 1974
- Floor area: 6,713m2
- Sector: Sports and leisure
- Total cost: £1.1M
- Tender date: Aug 1971
- Procurement: Negotiated RIBA 1963 edition
- Address: Prince's Way, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK2 2HQ, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: FaulknerBrowns
- Project architects: Alan Dunn, Colin Williams, Eric Newsham, Gilbert Pye, Graham Aldred, Keith Robson
- Client: Bletchley UDC
- Quantity surveyor: Gleeds
- Services engineer: Steenson, Varming, Mulcahy
- Structural engineer: Cooper, Higgins & Partners
- Management consultant: George Torkildsen
- Main contractor: John Laing Construction