Ian Ritchie will be giving a paper on February 25th at the second of the two forums examining how architects and artists are increasingly working together and exploring the different sensibilities they bring to creating urban environments.

“Cities are a combination of design and accident where the visions of sculptors and architects interweave with necessary infrastructure, the ambitions of politicians, and the commercial aims of developers” (Royal Academy of Arts)

For further information and tickets email :events.lectures@royalacademy.org.uk

Ian Ritchie Architects have been appointed by a major hospital provider to develop new strategic and detail design approaches to large hospital design.

Ian Ritchie will be giving a lecture to the Fine Art graduates at the Royal Academy Schools on Friday 1st March.

The London Regatta Centre located at the Royal Albert Dock in London’s east end, and the Scotland’s Homes of Tomorrow in Glasgow’s east end both received awards at the Civic Trust Awards Ceremony held on 18^th April at the beautiful Royal College of Physicians building designed by the late Sir Denys Lasdun.
A formal presentation of the plaque for each project will be made later in the year at the respective buildings.

Ian Ritchie Architects are represented at the current exhibition: Secret of the Shadow, The Light and Shadow in Architecture at the Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt. The exhibition runs from 23 March to 16th June 2002.

The exhibition, Blue Gold, conceived by Ian Ritchie Architects, within the 107m high gasometer at Oberhausen, was extended a further month until 28^th April 2002. The exhibition attracted 290,000 visitors.

A 1/10th scale maquette of Alba di Milano made of stainless steel and fractured optic fibre/stainless steel wire woven light fabric and a 1/50 scale model of the Spire of Dublin, 2.4m high, made of polished aluminiumm, will be exhibited Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2002. The exhibition opens to the public on 11^th June.

Berkeley Homes have appointed us to design a major mixed development scheme adjacent to Tower Bridge, that will include public cultural facilities and housing for both the private and public sector.

This month we will be recommending our design team’s choice of contractor to fabricate and erect the Dublin Spire to our client, Dublin City Council. The final selection includes visits led by Robin Cross, project architect, along with Cormac Deavy of Arup, and senior personnel from Dublin City Council to mainland Europe and Ireland.
The chosen contractor will be expected to complete the Dublin Spire in O’Connell Street this autumn.

Final Year design projects for a Leeds Ice Rink, by graduating M Eng Architectural Engineering and Civil Engineering with Architecture students from the University of Leeds. The exhibition is sponsored by the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society.

Details: 13^th June to 19^th June 2002 at the SITE Gallery, RIBA Centre for Design, 8 Woodhouse Square, Leeds LS3 1AD
Tel: 0113 245 6250/0113 243 1420
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