The Sir Ludwig Guttman Health & Wellbeing Centre creates a landmark civic building on the 2012 Olympics Athletes’ Village site, which now provides a significant legacy building for a variety of stakeholders including much needed community and health facilities for the Borough of Newham. The building comprises 3,800m² of state-of-the-art accommodation for NHS primary care needs along with an additional 1,500m² of premises for the East Village Community Development Trust, all within a building with a strong single identity. As ever flexibility and adaptability are key to providing for changing healthcare service needs over the lifetime of the building, and the period of establishment of the Development Trust, but particularly here to facilitate the fit-out and use of the building in 2012 as LOCOG’s Medical and Doping Control facilities for the Games. Of a smaller scale than its immediate on-site neighbours, the Centre required a strong sculptural form and simple, material qualities in order to achieve the landmark presence demanded by the brief. The dynamic roofline is hewn out of the solid block form of the building and accentuated by the angular truncation of the site. At ground and first floor the facade pulls back within the brick shell creating a generous and protected arcade. Within this Community shell-and-core, ‘shop’ units enliven the streetscape and frame the main entrance to the Centre. The playful use of gold, silver and bronze in this element is a subtle, but legible, reference to the Games. A dramatic four-storey atrium creates a unifying heart for the disparate activities within the building, surrounded by double-loaded accommodation, floor upon floor, with a variety of flexible clinical room types. It is naturally lit and ventilated and linked to an external courtyard at ground level. Clarity and hierarchy of way-finding continues into the corridors of the medical accommodation, each of these rooms itself de-cluttered from much traditional equipment to maximise day-to-day flexibility. The scheme was delivered from appointment to completion in (December 2011) 27 months in readiness for The Games.