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The Wellbeing Clinic: a red-brick community health centre with a glazed street front in Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Wellbeing Clinic

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Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Sector
Healthcare

A community health centre with GP clinics, diagnostics, physiotherapy, a pharmacy and a café, open to the street.

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Use

For everyone in the neighbourhood: GP surgeries, ultrasound and diagnostic rooms, physiotherapy, a pharmacy and a café, arranged around a central atrium and a planted courtyard, with active shopfronts on the street.

How we designed it

A four-storey building in red brick, to match the surrounding terraced streets, with a glazed ground floor of pharmacy and café. A tall, daylit atrium and a garden courtyard make the clinic feel like part of the neighbourhood rather than an institution.

The Wellbeing Clinic: a red-brick community health centre with a glazed street front in Manchester

Local brick, terrazzo floors and timber detailing that wear well, and a generous plan that can change use over time.

Why it endures
The Wellbeing Clinic: a red-brick community health centre with a glazed street front in Manchester
The Wellbeing Clinic: a red-brick community health centre with a glazed street front in Manchester
The Wellbeing Clinic: the main entrance and pharmacy on a wet evening
The Wellbeing Clinic: the building at dusk
The Wellbeing Clinic: the physiotherapy room
The Wellbeing Clinic: a GP consultation room
The Wellbeing Clinic: the diagnostics room
The Wellbeing Clinic: the pharmacy
The Wellbeing Clinic: the café
The Wellbeing Clinic: the garden corridor
The Wellbeing Clinic: brick and window detail

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