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The East London Community Centre is a destination for visitors throughout the neighbourhood and beyond, offering a stimulating, fun and inviting environment capable of hosting a much wider variety of programming—catering to all demographics to promote community-wide recreation, health, culture and learning. Under the MJMA-led master plan, the existing park retains its existing tennis courts and soccer pitch but gains a basketball court and copious parking—this in addition to the new 42,200-square-foot structure of the Centre itself. Occupying an L-shaped footprint, the two-storey Centre faces the interior of the park with a stately translucent façade; a generous entrance courtyard on the park-facing side is sheltered by three sheer walls, including a curtain wall that visually connects it to the lobby inside. Inside, the Centre features an aquatics centre—comprising a six-lane, 25-metre lap pool and a leisure pool supported by universal change rooms—and a large gymnasium. An additional complex of rooms, including multipurpose and activity rooms, community kitchen, and art rooms, provide spaces for recreation, community, and cultural programming.