Royal Academy Dance

Dance Studios

Royal Academy Dance
Relocation of the Royal Academy of Dance to a new 45,000 sq ft purpose-built academy in Battersea, delivered through a complex land swap arrangement. The project provides specialist teaching, rehearsal and performance facilities, including 10 dance studios and a 200-seat theatre, supporting world-class dance education within a contemporary cultural building.
Royal Academy Dance
Relocation of the Royal Academy of Dance to a new 45,000 sq ft purpose-built academy in Battersea, delivered through a complex land swap arrangement. The project provides specialist teaching, rehearsal and performance facilities, including 10 dance studios and a 200-seat theatre, supporting world-class dance education within a contemporary cultural building.
Royal Academy Dance
Relocation of the Royal Academy of Dance to a new 45,000 sq ft purpose-built academy in Battersea, delivered through a complex land swap arrangement. The project provides specialist teaching, rehearsal and performance facilities, including 10 dance studios and a 200-seat theatre, supporting world-class dance education within a contemporary cultural building.
Royal Academy Dance
Relocation of the Royal Academy of Dance to a new 45,000 sq ft purpose-built academy in Battersea, delivered through a complex land swap arrangement. The project provides specialist teaching, rehearsal and performance facilities, including 10 dance studios and a 200-seat theatre, supporting world-class dance education within a contemporary cultural building.

Royal Academy Dance
Relocation of the Royal Academy of Dance to a new 45,000 sq ft purpose-built academy in Battersea, delivered through a complex land swap arrangement. The project provides specialist teaching, rehearsal and performance facilities, including 10 dance studios and a 200-seat theatre, supporting world-class dance education within a contemporary cultural building.
Royal Academy Dance
Relocation of the Royal Academy of Dance to a new 45,000 sq ft purpose-built academy in Battersea, delivered through a complex land swap arrangement. The project provides specialist teaching, rehearsal and performance facilities, including 10 dance studios and a 200-seat theatre, supporting world-class dance education within a contemporary cultural building.
Royal Academy Dance
Relocation of the Royal Academy of Dance to a new 45,000 sq ft purpose-built academy in Battersea, delivered through a complex land swap arrangement. The project provides specialist teaching, rehearsal and performance facilities, including 10 dance studios and a 200-seat theatre, supporting world-class dance education within a contemporary cultural building.
Royal Academy Dance
Relocation of the Royal Academy of Dance to a new 45,000 sq ft purpose-built academy in Battersea, delivered through a complex land swap arrangement. The project provides specialist teaching, rehearsal and performance facilities, including 10 dance studios and a 200-seat theatre, supporting world-class dance education within a contemporary cultural building.

Royal Academy Dance
The project will deliver a new building housing exhibition space, learning facilities and visitor welcome, and will also convert an Old Deanery building into a cafe and community space.
Royal Academy Dance
The project will deliver a new building housing exhibition space, learning facilities and visitor welcome, and will also convert an Old Deanery building into a cafe and community space.
Royal Academy Dance
The project will deliver a new building housing exhibition space, learning facilities and visitor welcome, and will also convert an Old Deanery building into a cafe and community space.
Royal Academy Dance
The project will deliver a new building housing exhibition space, learning facilities and visitor welcome, and will also convert an Old Deanery building into a cafe and community space.

Project Overview

Royal Academy of Dance

Client

London

Location

Our Role

Appointed as Project Manager and Employer’s Agent. Developed the full project brief and technical specification for all spaces. Negotiated and agreed the Development Agreement, Land Swap and Lease arrangements. Monitored base build shell and core works and specialist fit-out works, ensuring compliance with the agreed brief, cost, quality and programme. Led procurement and coordination of interior design, loose furniture, equipment and specialist fit-out elements.

Project Details:

The Royal Academy of Dance is proposing to relocate its headquarters to the ground floor of a new purpose-built residential development, due for completion in 2020.

The new building will offer state of the art facilities and double the size of the academy’s current location. The new building will offer improved accessibility, multiple studios, flexible performance space with moveable seating, studios, changing rooms, offices, café’s, library and archive.

RAD aims for the project to strengthen ties with the local community, and meet high demands for high quality dance education. There will also be more opportunity for the local community involvement in dance activities and performances at the new site.

The Royal Academy of Dance has embarked on a major project with the construction of a brand new purpose built headquarters in Battersea. The project is a complex one and will provide the Academy with state-of-the-art facilities, which will become a new home for dance in the capital city. It is not an exaggeration to say that without the extraordinary support and help of Cragg Management, I do not believe we would have been able to deliver this project as successfully as will be the case. Nick Cragg and his colleagues have between them an encyclopaedic knowledge, wide experience and technical know-how which ensures their clients' interests are protected and promoted to an extraordinary degree.

The Royal Academy of Dance owes Cragg Management an enormous debt of gratitude and I bless the day we signed them up to guide us through this important project.

Luke Rittner, Chief Executive

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