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Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

We are delighted to be working as part of the Morgan Sindall team to breathe new life into Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.

Crystal Palace is synonymous with the United Kingdom’s rich cultural history. Paxton’s Cystal Palace, which was opened in Hyde Park for the 1851 Great Exhibition, was dismantled and relocated in 1854 to its permanent home at Sydenham Hill in Upper Norwood, where it remained until the Great Fire in 1936 devasted the structure. In 1964, the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, designed by the London County Council’s Architects Department under Project Architect Norman Engleback, was completed, providing world-class sporting facilities including a 50-metre swimming pool, sports halls and an athletics track.

Flythrough video showing the proposed refurbishment of Crystal Palace National Sports Centre

This is a brilliant opportunity to work within an amazing piece of architecture and resolve historic challenges, while respecting the building’s significant cultural heritage.

The proposal introduces vast improvements and benefits to the existing facility. Key elements include a new ventilation strategy for better temperature and humidity control, making the multi-levelled and complex interior more accessible and inclusive, and moving away from a reliance on fossil fuels while decarbonising the building.

Addressing the current open plan layout, a glazed screen has been introduced to achieve a more balanced environment between the pool hall and the remainder of the building.

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“The importance of this national facility and the rich cultural history which underpins its heritage make this project an amazing and exciting opportunity for us. We are very excited to be able to help write the next chapter of Crystal Palace, making it more inclusive, efficient and accessible.”
Steve McIntyre,
Partner
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Crystal palace sports centre london cgi visualisation of proposed pool hall refurbishment looking towards spectator seating 3x2
“The project promises to breathe new life into the extensive sporting facilities, while delivering a wide range of health, wellbeing, and social value benefits for local communities.”
Richard Dobson,
Morgan Sindall
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“Crystal Palace National Sports Centre is an historic and much-loved sporting and community facility where many UK sporting stars have started their careers and trained, but which needs major investment and refurbishment. I am committed to this once-in-a-generation redevelopment of the site which will secure its future for decades to come.”
Sadiq Khan,
Mayor of London
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