London Aquatics Centre

The London Aquatics Centre is an indoor swimming facility in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It was completed in 2011 at the cost of £269 million. Its design is inspired by Dollan Aqua Centre of Scotland. The centre has hosted many international swimming competitions such as 2012 Summer Olympics, Paralympics, and 2016 European Aquatics Championships. The centre was designed in 2004 by Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid and maintained by Greenwich Leisure Limited from 1st March 2014 - 29th February 2024, and currently maintaining by Everyone Active.

This venue has two competition pools and one warm-up pool. It has a movable pool floor to reduce the depth and movable booms to change size. Since this aquatic centre was designed before the bid of 2012 Olympics, the spectator side wings were not part of the original layout. They were later added to increase the seating capacity to 17,500. When the two temporary "wings" were removed, it reduced the capacity to a regular 2,500 seats with an option to increase it by 1,000 for major events.

After the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the temporary Water Polo Arena was taken down, leaving the London Aquatics Centre as the park's main permanent aquatic venue. Since then, the centre has continued to stage major competitions, including the 2014 FINA/NVC Diving World Series and the 2016 European Aquatics Championships. It remains an active facility for swimming, diving, training and other aquatic activities.