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.

Sir Christopher Frayling and Ian Ritchie, together with the Secretary of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, interviewed the final five candidates for the £60,000 Fellowship in Design. The theme of this year's competition being: Connecting the New Economy with the Old.

Ian Ritchie combined his Columbia University Manhattanville advisory role with a review of the exhibition at the Architecture Centre which features 'Liquid Wall' by RFR - which won a recent competition for new cladding ideas. He also attended the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust (AARAT) Gala.

Ian Ritchie attended the intermediate crit of 3rd year architectural student design work at Liverpool University.

A joint visit by Ian Ritchie, Jocelyne Van den Bossche, Henning Rambow from Leipzig, Inger Johanna Tollaas from Berlin, and Ulrike Brandi from Hamburg to see the Freedom and Unity Memorial exhibition of entries, including our own, at the Martin Gropiusbau Gallery in Berlin.