Wrightstyle chosen for £50m Royal Academy refit
August 2016

Steel and aluminium glazing systems supplier WRIGHTSTYLEhas been appointed to supply and install glazing systems as part of a £49.8million redevelopment to link two buildings, Burlington House and a building in Burlington Gardens owned by the Royal Academy of Arts, the UK’s oldest arts institution.

When complete in 2018, in time to celebrate the RA’s 250th birthday, visitors will for the first time be able to walk from Piccadilly to Mayfair through expanded and improved artistic spaces.

“The RA is an iconic institution and a centre of teaching excellence, and the redevelopment of its historic buildings is therefore a project of enormous national and cultural significance,” said Lee Coates, Wrightstyle’s technical director.

“We have particular expertise in working on historically sensitive buildings, and we have comprehensive systems ranges to enhance any built environment.”

The external glazing contract will comprise systems from both Wrightstyle and Secco Sistemi, for whom Wrightstyle was appointed a fabricator and supplier earlier this year.

Wrightstyle recently completed the iconic frontage to King’s Cross station in London, is currently working on a historic project on Tower Bridge, and expects to complete the RA contract in three phases between the end of this year and spring 2017.

Contractor for the RA project is John Sisk & Son and the architect is David Chipperfield.