The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) has become the latest cultural organisation to announce an east London facility, revealing plans for new studio spaces in Docklands.
RAM has revealed plans to create new teaching and rehearsal spaces on London City Island to complement their main site on Marylebone Road in central London.
The new site will comprise four large, acoustically separated studios and ten teaching and practice rooms, expanding student training prospects, particularly in opera and musical theatre.
RAM joins cultural organisations such as the BBC, V&A and Sadler’s Wells in creating additional facilities in east London, and the studios will be on the same island peninsula as English National Ballet’s headquarters.
The “stacked village of studios” will be designed by AOC Architecture, who recently worked on Kew’s National Archives and Bethnal Green’s Young V&A, in a pre-existing building rented by RAM from developers EcoWorld Ballymore.
RAM principal Jonathan Freeman-Attwood described the move as “a game-changer” that will “strengthen the Academy’s social impact, improving access to music education for all”.
The building will create supplementary space for RAM’s Widening Participation initiatives, which identify, train and mentor young people from under-represented backgrounds.
Plans also include developing projects with community partners in the area that work in special education needs and disability (SEND) settings, hospital patients and care home residents.
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