Opened in 2007 as the premier tennis facility in the UK, the National Tennis Centre (NTC) is the home of the LTA; the British governing body for tennis and Great Britain’s Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams.

It offers state-of-the-art tennis facilities, indoors and outdoors, for elite Men’s, Women’s and Wheelchair performance teams, including players like Andy Murray, Dan Evans, Jo Konta, Heather Watson and Gordon Reid. It also delivers junior and adult community projects.

It boasts some of the world’s finest facilities including 20 tennis courts covering all four Grand Slam surfaces, three padel courts, accommodation, a world-class sports science centre, high-performance gymnasiums and a self-service restaurant.

The LTA commissioned Alchemy Mill to refit all environments with a visual identity to characterise the facility as a centre of sporting excellence.

Working for the LTA for many years, we have had the pleasure of visiting the NTC many times and have always appreciated the award-winning architecture. We instinctively understood how to strike a balance with the building materials, the flow of the centre and the opportunity of this renovation to inject the player development principles with real passion – in key impact areas.

We undertook the design and installation during the COVID-19 restrictions. Returning players, colleagues, groundskeepers have been overjoyed with the new lease of life we’ve successfully breathed into the site. Subsequently, the facilities have been the backdrop to marquee tournaments like ‘Battle of the Brits’ and appeared on the BBC’s Children in Need tennis sketch, starring Andy Murray and Peter Crouch.