Overview
Founded over 200 years ago, the Royal Academy of Music has long stood at the forefront of musical training and performance, housed within a distinguished ensemble of Grade I and II listed buildings on Marylebone Road. Wright & Wright has been appointed to lead a £30 million transformation of 1–5 York Gate, the 1822 John Nash terrace, and its adjoining recital hall - the most significant renewal of the site in decades.
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Early designs for a reimagined recital hall at the Academy
Alongside a major refurbishment of the building’s teaching and performance spaces, the project will create publicly accessible galleries, conservation-grade exhibition environments and collections-care studios for the Academy’s Special Collections, which include Stradivari instruments and rare archival materials.
Early designs for world-class spaces at the Academy
Drawings
Illustration short section showing the sequence of spaces
Spotlight
Special Collections
Since its foundation in 1822, the Royal Academy of Music has acquired and curated an extraordinary range of instruments, artworks, manuscripts, letters, scores, performance materials and rare objects.
Harp lute and two lyre guitars, early 19th century
Legacy
Today, the Academy is home to 770 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as 250 young musicians in the Junior Academy. As one of the world’s leading conservatoires, its mission is to provide state-of-the-art facilities that meet the needs of students training at the highest level.
History
The Academy's Marylebone campus includes 1–5 York Gate, designed by John Nash in 1822 as five individual houses next to Regent's Park.
1-5 York Gate, originally designed by Regency architect John Nash in 1822
