The RSC has published an account of its Transformation Project which has seen the realisation over the last six years of the 1050 seat Courtyard Theatre designed by us, rehearsal rooms and the RSC new offices, and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre designed by Bennetts Associates with Buro Happold, Charcoalblue and the RSC project team. Ian Ritchie has been an RSC Governor since 2001.

Ian Ritchie will be talking at the RA Forum entitled Monuments & Forgetting on Feb 21st 2011 at 18.30 alongside historian Christine Stevenson and performance artist Rod Dickinson.

Ian Ritchie and Professor John O'Keefe will be giving a presentation at UCL of the developing Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour to the UCL Neuroscience community.

Gordon Talbot and Ian Ritchie will be visiting the Lamberts Glass factory in Bavaria to explore the development of a new cast glass product. Glashütte Lamberts Waldsassen is a company with a strong commitment to eco-friendly glass production. The factory invests in advanced green manufacturing technologies and carefully selects environmentally conscious business partners.

The office is closed from 23rd December 2010 until 4th December 2011.

Ian Ritchie attended the final student design crit for the first 3rd year project at Liverpool University - urban design and a photographer's gallery located between Liverpool 1 and the business district - and gave a summary to the faculty and students.

José Garrido and Ian Ritchie presented the feasibility study for the transformation of the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music to the statutory authorities, land and building owners.

Oliver Scheffler is returning to Berlin after 8 years away. Oliver worked on Wood Lane Station and North House, developing a good insight into site construction, and with Ian Ritchie on new light fittings. He was a regular writer for German magazines and we wish him well.

The RSC transformed main theatre - the RST - had its Builders' Night, which Ian Ritchie attended in his role as a Governor of the RSC. The architects of the new transformation are Bennetts Associates, the engineers Buro Happold and MACE, the main contractor.

At the invitation of Architecture Today, Ian Ritchie wrote a critical review of Jean Nouvel's One New Change, designed and executed with Siddell Gibson Architects. The article can be found here.