RA Summer Show Architecture Gallery, curated by Ian Ritchie, is entirely blue and has been very favourably received by architects, visitors and press. Bovis Lend Lease are also sponsoring a student prize this year for the first time.

RSC Courtyard Theatre has received a Regional RIBA Award.

With the final performance of Coriolanus in the RST, the Courtyard Theatre has now become the main theatre for the RSC in Stratford upon Avon. The transformation of the RST by Bennetts Associates will enable productions to begin again in 2011.

Ian Ritchie will be giving a talk on Potters Fields, glass facades and the latest Part L impact at the international Glass Conference, GPD07, in Tampere, Finland, on Saturday 16th June.

This year’s summer trip is to Leipzig on June 1-3. We’ll meet up with our ‘sister office’ there, Tagebau, see the Glass Hall ten years after its completion and experience the renaissance of the city itself.

Peter Bishop announced that there will be a new London Square embracing both St Pancras and King’s Cross Stations. We were selected in March 2006 by London Borough of Camden following a competitive interview to help create the design framework for new London Square at Kings Cross, and to produce urban design guidelines for the areas east, west and south of Kings Cross Station.

Ian Ritchie has been appointed to the Mayor&rsqiuo;s Design Panel for the new river Thames Gateway Bridge (TGB) connecting north London at Beckton with south London at Thamesmead. An international competition for its design, procurement and management will be announced early this summer.
Under the chair of Michael Clarke, the panel includes Sir Jack Zunz, ex Chair of Arup; Peter Bishop, Director Design for London; Chris Wise and Malcolm Fletcher, both engineers, Rikki Burdett, Julia Barfield and Michel Desvigne. Observers from LB of Newham and Greenwich will also attend.

Ian Ritchie, together with Paul Huxley and Bill Woodrow will be co-ordinating this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The theme is Light.
Chris Wilkinson will assist Ian with the hanging of the architecture gallery and this year, we are encouraging architects to submit works which are for sale. Collecting architectural drawings, prints and models is a growth area.
Forms can be obtained from summerexhibition@royalacademy.org.uk

Ian Ritchie will be giving a masterclass and a public lecture, focusing on glass, on March 1st 2007, at the Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs Lyngby. This is the inaugural lecture to celebrate the 150th anniversary of civil engineering education in Denmark.