Ian Ritchie has been invited to speak at the Alpbach Forum, founded by Karl Popper in 1945, in the session entitled Sustainable Architecture: "Tomorrow’s Solution or Yesterday’s Dream". The Architectural Forum runs from Thursday 4pm to Saturday evening 16th August, with the Sustainable Architecture session from 2pm Saturday. This is the third year that architecture has been a fixture at this European Forum, and this year the Alpbach Forum will be opened by Kofi Annan, UN General Secretary, Sir Christopher Zeeman, mathematician, Univ. of Warwick, and Erhard Busek, President, Austrian College.

TR2 has received a 2003 RIBA Award. In February, it received an American Institute of Architects Award.

Ian Ritchie Architects are one of six teams short listed to prepare designs for the Leamouth Bridge competition.

The invitation to architects to compete for one of the joint CABE/DAPA Social Housing projects (in and around the two capital cities) has been announced. The competition brief is available at www.unite-initiative.com.

The CABE side of the project is being managed by the Kent Architecture Centre. Ian Ritchie, CABE Emeritus Commissioner, will be chairing the selection panel.

Improving the quality of the built environment is the long-term aim of CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. CABE Education has been established as a charitable foundation dedicated to unlocking the educational potential of the built environment. A website dedicated to CABE Education will be created shortly.

Plymouth Theatre Royal Production Centre, published by Categorical Books, is 14cm x 14cm, has 96 pages, a full description of the design process with colour photographs and drawings. It retails at ø and will be published in May 2003. Please contact us and include your name and address with the number of copies you wish to reserve and this will be forwarded to Categorical Books.

A second public exhibition was held at Lambeth College on 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th April 2003 showing the revised new mixed development scheme on a site adjacent to Tower Bridge and the GLA City Hall. A planning application has been submitted to London Borough of Southwark. There is approximately 11,000m2 of public cultural and community space accessed from an expanded Potters Fields Park, and 386 residential units, of which 30% will be available to a Registered Social Landlord for affordable or key worker housing.

A planning application has been submitted to the London Borough of Southwark by Berkeley Homes for a mixed development comprising more than 11,000m² of public space, 386 residential units of which 30% are affordable / key worker, and Potters Fields Park increased by 40% in area. A further public exhibition is being planned.

Berkeley Homes have also recently appointed Ian Ritchie Architects to design a mixed development near Canary Wharf and will include several hundred new homes.

Wanda Diebolt, Directrice of DAPA , La Direction de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, will officially launch the 2nd Carnets Internationaux ‘Recent Innovative Social Housing in France and UK’, in Paris on 13^th December 2002. CABE will be represented by Joanna Averley (Dir. Of enabling) and Alex Ely (Housing Co-ordinator).

Ian Ritchie Architects’ new stainless steel and glass extension will be watertight for Christmas. Fit-out will be in February 2003.