20th March at 6pm is the time of the official launch of our newly formed "textile futures research group" which comprises around 30 innovators in the field of textiles working across the University of the Arts.
There will be a seminar at 6pm at the ICA main lecture theatre at which Ian Ritchie will be one of five contributors giving a 20min talk interrogating the future of textiles through describing their work and ideas. It will be followed by the launch party. Carole Collet, Course Director MA Textile Futures at the University of the Arts, Central Saint Martins College, is leading this initiative.
www.csm.arts.ac.uk; www.textilefutures.co.uk; www.tfrg.org.uk

We have been selected to submit a design entry in the competition for Holyhead Harbour. Construction budgets range from £1 million to £2.5 million, and the phase one Landmark Wales projects are at Holyhead Harbour, the Second Severn Crossing and on the Flintshire border.

Ian Ritchie will be giving the final lecture out of series of eleven lectures in the ‘Dreamers + Makers’ series.
The lecture series is organized by OxArch, the Oxford Student Architecture Society. This year they are welcoming a mix of architects, engineers artists and other professionals.

A unique stainless steel sculptural seat, designed for a private client and fabricated by John Desmond Ltd with assistance from Barnshaws and Windsor Workshop. The seat has recently been installed in a private park alongside other sculptures by Frink, Chadwick and Pye.

The major load bearing trusses spanning across the tracks of the Central Line at White City were successfully placed and enable the construction of the Hammersmith & City Line Wood Lane station to proceed apace. This new station, opposite the BBC, is another public transport facility that we have designed, and will make a significant contribution to tube travel in West London. It is the first new London tube station since the Jubilee Line was extended during the 1990s (Bermondsey Station).

After several years in design and construction, the TfL LUL Sidings for the overnight garaging of sixteen Central Line trains was handed over. This project forms part of the major public infrastructure works which enables the development of Whitecity and improves public transport for London. Waterman Group provided engineering design services and Multiplex constructed the buildings.

Site preparation works commenced for the first phase of the Potters Fields development.

We submitted, on behalf of Berkeley Homes, a detailed planning application for the transformation of the Grade II Lambeth College building near Tower Bridge, Southwark, into a ‘bijou’ hotel.

We have been commissioned by a major developer in Ireland to prepare designs for a major office development in the centre of Dublin, overlooking the River Liffey.

We are working with Arup (structural engineers) and Delappe & Waller (environmental engineers).

Ian Ritchie is giving the annual Paterson Memorial Lecture at the invitation of the Cheltenham Civic Society on Tuesday, 5^th December 2006, at the Society’s HQ, Parmoor House, Lypiatt Terrace, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham.