A 1970s health centre has been transformed into a modern primary care and mental health facility designed to offer more-efficient and accessible services to patients across west Scotland.

Designed by Page\Park Architects, the 6,740sq m Woodside Health and Care Centre brings together a range of primary and community care services that were located across various sites in Glasgow with the intention that Greater Clyde and Glasgow NHS can offer a more-integrated and efficient service for the local community.

The £19m development reflects Glasgow’s characteristic grid form of rectangular blocks intersected by ‘gushet blocks’ and a number of distinctive corner buildings.

Bringing a significant urban scale and presence back to the area, each corner of the gushet contains an entrance marked by precast concrete panels containing artwork reliefs designed by Bespoke Atelier.

The predominant material facing the urban street edge is a hand-cut brick, while the inner courtyard, clad in western red cedar, reflects the quieter, softer nature of these less-defensible elevations.

And the street elevations reflect the local materiality of the surrounding developments, while the subtle detailing of the brick, with its double-string coursing and large window openings, pays homage to the historical nature of the area and at the same time breaks down the massing of the skin.

Inside, the building houses a health centre, community addictions service and elderly daycare facility.

On the lower-ground floor there is a daycare facility and courtyard garden, with community services, including a dental practice and pharmacy, on the ground floor.

The first floor houses GP consulting rooms, waiting areas, and receptions, all orientated around a top-lit glazed central atrium.

And the top floor is a private level for staff featuring agile working spaces and a café.

Project team

M&E and fire engineer: Cundalls

Landscape architect: Ian White Associates

Cost consultant and CDM co-ordinator: Thomas & Adamson

Contractor: Morgan Sindall

Structural engineer: Baker Hicks