Ian Ritchie Architects have won a UK AIA Award for the RSC Courtyard Theatre. The awards were announced 8th May at the Wintergarden, Canary Wharf, London.

Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd have issued the following Press Statement:

"From the outset of the project, Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd has always worked closely and constructively with Berkeley Homes. The scheme offers housing, both private and affordable, eleven thousand square metres of public space of which eight thousand square metres is for cultural use such as museums or galleries while ensuring that the entire ground level forms a permeable and public extension to Potter’s Fields Park through to the riverside walk…

Ian Ritchie Architects have been successful in a limited invited competition for the design competition of a significant HQ office development on the north bank of the River Liffey. As a result, our client, Royceton has been able to secure the development of the new Allied Irish Bank HQ building in Dublin. It represents the largest ever letting agreement in Ireland.

Ian Ritchie Architects’ annual ‘works outing’ is to Athens in March to look at the effect that hosting the Olympic Games has on a city, and to the Athletes’ Village in connection with our commission from Bovis Lend Lease for the London Olympics.

Ian Ritchie will give the RIBA West Midlands lecture on European Second Cities on Tuesday 4th March in Birmingham.
He will also give a lecture at the Birmingham School of Architecture on Thursday 13th March.
Ian is also lecturing to students from the Politecnico de Milano at our office on 15th March.

Ian Ritchie Architects will have a breakfast viewing in March of the Royal Academy exhibition From Russia.

Synopsis: Values in Architecture

Ian Ritchie CBE RA, the Royal Academy’s Professor of Architecture and Director of Ian Ritchie Architects explores and challenges the meanings of some of the complex and contradictory issues that confront designers today such as progress, consumerism and sustainability. He will include examples of how his architecture and ideas attempt to focus these issues through the physical and ephemeral materials with which his architecture is made.

The RSC Courtyard Theatre was commended in the Client Satisfaction category at the Building Performance Awards at MIPIM 2008.

Ian Ritchie Architects have been selected to compete for the design of Transport for London’s new generation of bus shelters. Designs will be submitted by nine teams - two are architectural firms, and the other six industrial design companies.

Ian Ritchie Architects will be creating an exhibition of their work at Liverpool University. It will run during October and November 2008 while Liverpool is European City of Culture. Professor Neil Jackson will be helping to facilitate the exhibition.