I spent part of the morning looking at the way that the RA Schools can develop after the completion of our scheme for Burlington Gardens.   The building is currently a palimpsest:  a layer of Sydney Smirke’s original utilitarian spaces, created by the use of cast iron girders supporting the exhibition galleries above;  then, Norman Shaw coming in as Surveyor in the 1880s and making various changes, as well as adding an extra set of studios at the back;  then a series of mezzanines inserted into the original spaces, thereby cannibalising them.   Many of these accretions can be stripped away:-