The Royal College of Art is the largest dedicated centre for postgraduate applied art in the UK. Upon completion, the new four-storey building will provide 2,700 square metre space for teaching and workshop areas. It will offer purpose-built, state-of-the-art studio, technical facilities and teaching space for staff and students from applied art programmes as well as researchers from across the College.
The M&E design for the building is being undertaken by Wallace Whittle and Partners while Vinci Construction UK is the main contractor of the project, working with consultants Max Fordham & Partners. The project will be completed by the start of the academic term starting in late 2015, with the facility scheduled to open in autumn.
The new building of the Royal College of Art will be named ‘The Sir Po-Shing and Lady Helen Woo Applied Art Department’ in honour of the couple’s long association with the RCA.
