Kensington transformation
Throughout our 187-year history, the Royal College of Art has continually evolved its campuses to meet the needs of the most talented artists and designers, creators and innovators. In the coming years, we will be making two significant changes to our campuses.
The RCA is currently delivering world-leading programmes and research activity across our three campuses located in Kensington, Battersea and White City. From March 2027, we will be vacating our White City campus, returning to a two-campus university based in Kensington and Battersea.
Additionally, from August 2025, the College will be embarking upon a series of refurbishment works at our Kensington campus. These involve making essential repairs to some areas of our much-loved heritage buildings and improving our facilities for future generations of RCA students and staff.
The vision is to unify our community into two dynamic campuses that foster creativity, innovation and meaningful cross-college interdisciplinary collaboration among staff and students. We will create flexible spaces for making, teaching, research and community engagement, whilst honouring our commitment to student and staff experience and the historical significance of the campuses throughout and beyond the refurbishment process.
If you have any queries or require further information, please contact the College at [email protected].