Text Box: Above: New Dining Hall with Boarding to the right Below: Extension to The Pavlova Studio

Ballet School
Text Box: The philosophy throughout has been to humanise the external spaces through the form of enclosure that the buildings can provide. The School grounds have areas of public, semi-public, private and intimate spaces, all created through the buildings’ forms and iconography. In addition, we mitigated effects on adjacent badger setts and have enhanced the planting in the park by creating a green hedge around the School, providing more diverse habitats for wildlife. The Royal Ballet School has a unilateral undertaking to ensure that the expertise of the ballet training is developed and shared with GLA Schools. The new studios (named after Dame Darcey Bussell and the Director of the School, Gailene Stock) are specifically provided and sited to give necessary facilities to allow schools throughout the country to engage with other pupils not fortunate enough to attend the School. We have also worked on a programme to open the School’s new Ballet Resource Centre, completed in January 2009, to Primary Schools. Text Box: Royal Ballet School White Lodge