GROVE WELLBEING CENTRE

Client
Belfast Health Trust, Belfast CC & Library Board

Completion
2008

GPS
54°37'18.1N 5°55'25.6W

AWARDS
RSUA Design Awards 2010 – Commendation
RIAI Irish Architecture Awards 2009 ‘Exhibition Award: Leisure Category
William Keown Trust Prestige Access Award 2008
Building Better Healthcare Awards 2008: Best Community Care Design Award

In January 2002, Kennedy FitzGerald and Associates were commissioned by Belfast City Council to design a new leisure centre to replace the existing Grove Baths in Belfast. Having identified the need for a new Community Treatment and Care Centre in the area, the Trust’s Primary Care services and a number of GP practices would combine these two new facilities to create an integrated Health and Well Being Centre.

An agreement to proceed with the development of a design for a building containing all of the proposed services was reached in early 2003 and Kennedy FitzGerald formed an association with Avanti Architects, a London based practice with extensive experience in primary healthcare architecture, to assist them with the development of the project. Kennedy FitzGerald assumed overall responsibility for the coordination and design of the project with Avanti Architects leading on the planning of the Health Centre.

The Grove is the first centre in Northern Ireland to combine health, leisure and information services and benefited from consultation with the Carbon Trust in accordance with the low Carbon Design initiative.

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