Sisk wins £50m Royal Academy revamp

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Sisk has been confirmed to build the £50m redevelopment of London's Royal Academy, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk. The David Chipperfield-designed revamp of the Royal Academy (RA) will start on site this year - seven years after Chipperfield won the job. He is the third architect to work on it. The project will link the RA's main Burlington House gallery with Burlington Gardens for the first time in their history. All but £6m of the cost has been secured - along with agreement from all the buildings' users - so work can finally begin. It is due to complete in time for the RA's 250th anniversary in 2018, chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith said on Monday. The two buildings back on to each other but are at different levels and the area between them is filled with service yards and the studios of the RA's art schools.