Site construction begins on the temporary theatre for the RSC.
It will have 1040 seats, and be completed in Spring 2006 in time for the RSC’s ambitious festival of the complete works of Shakespeare.

At the invitation of the Building Information Centre, Istanbul, Ian Ritchie will give a lecture on 27^th April in Istanbul entitled Design and Innovation.

At the invitation of EDAS kirpichev, Moscow, Ian Ritchie will give a lecture on 11^th April in Moscow entitled ethics, Design and Innovation.

The new Network Rail station at Shepherds Bush begins construction.

Representatives of Westfield, Network Rail, Silverlink and the London Boroughs of Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington & Chelsea along with the design team of Ian Ritchie Architects, Waterman Burrow Crocker and Rail Project managers Symonds attended a launch event at Whitecity on April 13th 2005.

Ian Ritchie appointed as Architects Council of Europe representative on the European Construction Technology Platform, High Level Group.

Ian Ritchie will be giving a lecture at the EDAS Moscow Postgraduate School of Architecture on 8 April 2005.
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Ian Ritchie RA, the Royal Academy’s Professor of Architecture, 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 the architecture is made.
Geological Society, Piccadilly, W1. Monday 31 January, 6.30 - 7.30pm

The Royal Shakespeare Company appointed Ian Ritchie Architects in October 2004 to lead the design of the temporary RSC Transition Theatre in Stratford. Within 2 months of our appointment a detailed planning application was submitted by the RSC on 13th December. The engineering consultants working with the RSC project team includes WSP, King Shaw Associates and Paul Gillieron Acoustic Design. The RSC will have the new 1000 seat Transition Theatre available for performances in April 2006 in time for the planned Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival. The Transition Theatre will be in use for a few years as the main house while the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre theatre is rebuilt.