Ian will give an Annual Lecture in the 1200 seat Bovard Hall at the University of Southern California USC Arts & Humanities, School of Architecture on the 21st January at 7pm entitled 'This Land is OUR Land, Greening Architecture, Ethics and the Environment.' An illustrated on-line download will be available on our website from 26th January in the 'writings' section.

Ian will also lecture in Scotland at:

• Edinburgh University on the 27th February, 6pm
• Aberdeen University on the 18th March, 6.30pm
• RIAS Annual Conference keynote speech at Dundee University on the 15th May

Gordon Talbot will give a lecture on the 26th March at Lincoln University.

We were shortlisted for competitions in Dresden and Hamburg. We are working with our sister offices in each city respectively.

A successful High Court legal action was brought against Dublin Docklands Development Corporation resulting in the 40,000m² AIB HQ being cancelled as it was about to go to construction phase.

Wood Lane Station on the Hammersmith & City Line opposite the BBC will be opening this month. The design team was led by Gordon Talbot with Anthony Summers, Mark Bagguley, Stefan Lengen, Gordon Swapp, and Jim Corbett.

Ian Ritchie Architects exhibition "poïesis in architecture" at Liverpool University opened with party on 2nd October and to the public from 3rd October and will run until January 16th 2009.

Ian Ritchie will be delivering a lecture at Liverpool University in the evening of Wednesday, December 3rd 2008.

Mountbrook Homes have appointed us to prepare designs for a major development in Dublin.

We have been appointed to prepare a feasibility study on the refurbishment and potential expansion of the Grade II* Powell and Moya designed Chichester Festival Theatre.

Following a successful public inquiry, Berkeley Homes were granted planning permission to convert the Lambeth College building by Tower Bridge into a ‘boutique’ hotel, maintaining Ian Ritchie Architects’ 100% record in securing planning permission for every project that it has designed and submitted for permission in the UK and Europe.

Ian has been member of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851’s selection panel for its Research Fellowships in The Built Environment for the past few years and, also since 2006, its Research Fellowships in Design. The 2008 Research Fellowships is currently being reviewed by the panel of Alan Baxter, Dr Joanna Kennedy, Lord Lindley and Ian. The Research Fellowships are worth £60,000 over two years.