Ian Ritchie Architects have won the competition for the Royal Victoria Dock Pedestrian Link.

Ian Ritchie and Rossa Prendergast presented with Neil Thomas of Atelier 1, and with Ulrike Brandi Licht of Hamburg will be working with Jacobs Engineering to deliver a new crossing and walkway for the London Olympics between Excel, London's Exhibition Centre and the Thames.

As well as receiving an Honorary Fellowship, Ian Ritchie was invited to give the Annual Fellows talk at the RIAS Fellows Dinner in Glasgow, attended by the Lord Provost of Glasgow.

Ian Ritchie has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

King Solomon Academy is officially opened on the 11th February with a celebratory party.

Gordon Talbot has accepted an offer to be a member of the Greenwich University Architecture School Advisory Board.

We have been selected for a Masterplanning role in Edinburgh.

Ben Ward is leaving after five years to undertake the renovation and transformation into a hotel of a timber palace in Istanbul. He has recently been leading the feasibility studies for the Chichester Festival Theatre.

We have been shortlisted for two cultural projects and are currently working on our submissions which are due in at the end of February.

King Solomon Academy in Westminster was completed. The final phase was the refurbishment of the Leonard Mannaseh school building.

We have been invited to undertake a feasibility study into transforming The Academy's Sir Jack Lyons Theatre which was opened in 1976. The Theatre, which currently seats 230, is used for opera, jazz and media music as well as some chamber music performances. The study will take place early in 2010.