CABE have produced a guide entitled: ‘Creating Excellent Buildings: a guide for clients’. To obtain a copy, contact CABE at: enquiries@cabe.org.uk. Alternatively, a PDF version of the guide can be downloaded from: www.cabe.org.uk/publications.

In conjunction with the publication of the guide, CABE are running six free events from November 2003 to March 2004. Please see www.cabe.org.uk for further details.

Ian Ritchie is one of six architect members of the jury for the Ile Seguin "Façade-enveloppe" Design Competition taking place this year in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The other architects are Tadao Ando, Xavier de Geyter, François Grether, Michel Desvignes and Jean Nouvel.

CABE will be administering the UK’s participation in the next Europan competition (No 8), and appointing a new chairman. Ian Ritchie chaired Europan UK from 1997 having succeeded Richard Rogers.

The winner of the the RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects’ Journal will be announced at the science centre Explore@Bristol in Bristol and will be televised by Channel 4 at 8pm on Sunday October 12.

TR2 is one of 6 projects shortlisted for the RIBA’s prestigious Stirling Prize. The £20,000 prize is named in memory of Sir James Stirling and is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.

The Isle of Dogs Station for Crossrail is being designed by Mott MacDonald acting as lead consultants with Ian Ritchie Architects.

Mr Fred Mead has been shortlisted for the ICW Award (Institute of Clerk of Works Award) which will be announced on 13th November.

Piling starts this month on the Whitecity project.