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Our copper cladding work at the Royal Academy of Music has been featured in issue 46/2019 of the Copper Architecture Forum magazine. Ian Ritchie Architects explain their ingenious design for the Royal Academy of Music in a particularly challenging historic London location. Winner of several awards, including the RIBA London Building of the Year 2018, the project is defined by its roofline of blue patinated copper – a material that the architects have been exploring for over a

The Royal Academy of Music project was extremely complex. On a very constrained site, two new distinct performance spaces have been created for Britain’s oldest conservatoire, with new vertical circulation improving connectivity within the Academy. Surrounded by listed buildings, these exceptional performance spaces have been seamlessly integrated within the historic Academy site. The theatre, designed for both opera and musical theatre, now forms the heart of the Academy, an