East Village Health Centre
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Health centre in the Olympic village that will treat sports injuries and carry out drug tests during the games and will be a local NHS centre for the village in Legacy mode
On the edge of the Athletes’ Village the health centre is situated on a triangular site bounded on two sides by railway cuttings. The monolithic building contains 3,800m2 of NHS accommodation with an additional 1,500m2 that will house a Community Development Trust post-Games.
All three facades are clad in brick with vertical slot windows, although the west has a large portion of glazed aluminium curtain wall. The street facade has a dramatic elevation with a double-storey classical arcade that contains glazed shopfronts with gold, silver and bronze painted units above.
Internally a four-storey atrium is surrounded by a continuous ribbon of double-loaded accommodation on each floor that contain flexible standardized rooms. The expression is spare and simple: balustrades and balconies are expressed in timber and a lime-green rubber floor is used for all clinical areas.
Data
- Begun: Jun 2010
- Completed: Dec 2011
- Floor area: 5,300m2
- Sector: Healthcare
- Address: London, E20, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Penoyre & Prasad
- Client: Lend Lease
- Structural engineer: WSP
- M&E consultant: Wallace Whittle
- Quantity surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald
- Landscape architect: Applied Landscape Design
- Acoustic consultant: Hann Tucker Associates
- Fire engineer: Jeremy Gardner Associates
- Civil engineer: WSP
- Transport consultant: WSP
- Access consultant: David Bonnett Associates
- Project manager: Lend Lease
- CDM coordinator: Lend Lease
- Approved building inspector : JLAB
- Main contractor: Wilmott Dixon