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Swindon Indoor Snow Centre Building
Wiltshire Development for Seven Capital, England, UK – design by FaulknerBrowns Architects
7 Feb 2018
Swindon Indoor Snow Centre Building
FaulknerBrowns submit plans for indoor snow centre in Swindon
Design: FaulknerBrowns Architects
An application for planning permission has been submitted to Swindon Borough Council by FaulknerBrowns Architects, on behalf of Seven Capital, for a major new indoor snow centre and leisure destination in Swindon. If approved, the scheme will become the fifth snow slope designed by the practice, and only the seventh in the UK.

Plans for the leisure destination include a 2,000 square metre snow centre featuring two real-snow slopes; a twelve screen cinema with the largest IMAX screen in the UK; a bowling alley; an indoor trampolining centre; a 130 room hotel; and a variety of shops, bars and restaurants.
The scheme, which has been earmarked as a priority by Swindon Borough Council, will bring back into use former-industrial land to the north of Swindon town centre known as the North Star site. The land, which sits adjacent to Oasis Leisure Centre, was previously occupied by the Great Western Railway Works, prior to demolition in 2009 to make way for redevelopment.
The two linear forms of the convergent slopes frame the corner of the site and form a back drop for a circular rotunda which is set between. The rotunda...