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.

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.