The application for the building at Middle Mill includes a lecture theatre, student gallery and specialist arts and media facilities.
The Knight’s Park campus is situated behind the university’s Penrhyn Road site and students there specialise in art, design and architecture.
The proposed building will form part of a new creative quarter with publicly accessible spaces.
The design has been formulated by Grafton Architects, the team behind the University’s Town House building.
That design won the RIBA Stirling Prize and EU Mies van der Rohe Award.
Kingston University Vice-Chancellor Professor Steven Spier said: “The proposed building at Middle Mill reflects Kingston School of Art’s success as a world-leading place to study the creative industries. At Kingston University, we firmly believe world-class architectural design drives educational innovation and excellence, as we have seen with Grafton’s Town House on the Penrhyn Road campus. Exceptional buildings have a transformative impact on students, staff and the wider community alike, providing an environment in which creativity, collaboration and shared learning truly flourish.”
Principal Director of Grafton Architects Shelley McNamara said: “We imagined an architecture which would respect the needs of the existing riverside ecosystem as well as the spatial needs of the University. This has generated a sense of ‘soft edges’ – a gentle shoreline between the river-world and manmade ground. We know of no other university building so close to such a unique confluence of natural riches and possessing such an otherworldly atmosphere, which is so conducive to study, contemplation, discovery and social delight.”
