Designed by WilkinsonEyre it won an award at the World Architecture Festival in 2013.

[4] WilkinsonEyre won an architectural design competition held by the Royal Institute of British Architects, which attracted 109 expressions of interest.

[1] It was opened by Paralympian swimmer Ellie Simmonds on 20 June 2013.

[5] Splashpoint Leisure Centre lies between Brighton Road to the north and the town's beach and promenade to the south.

According to Chris Wilkinson, principal architect at WilkinsonEyre, the "building seeks to draw on forms already present in the town, taking on the undulating linearity of the ranks of surrounding terraced houses and the breakwater groynes on the beach.