Planning Success: Headington Art School & Lecture Theatre

Lyons+Sleeman+Hoare have secured planning permission for a new Art School and Lecture Theatre for Headington School, an independent girls’ school in Oxfordshire.

The 23,000 sq.ft art school combines physical and digital media teaching with display and gallery spaces, and ancillary services. 'Traditional' art 2-d and 3-d disciplines are accommodated in 3 large, north-lit artist studios, 2 wet and dry textile studios, a 3-d pottery/ sculpture studio and Kiln Room, and Photography and Dark Room facility.

A major double height gallery space, new 150-seater lecture auditorium and a secondary gallery space are also provided, along with a new Art Library, seminar room, washrooms and staff offices.