• Contact

    mail@ianritchiearchitects.co.uk
    T (+44) (0) 20 7338 1100
    F (+44) (0) 20 73 38 11 99
    110 Three Colt Street
    London E14 8AZ

  • Awards

    Ian Ritchie Architects have an international reputation for the quality of their thinking, design and innovation. The practice has received many national and international awards and has been short-listed on four occasions for the RIBA Stirling Prize

  • Range of Work

    We have been fortunate as a practice to be involved in a very wide range of projects, each contributing to our knowledge and development. These include visions and strategic planning, master planning and urban design, architecture and art, exhibitions and landscape, civil, structural, glass and fabric engineering, Applied science and industrial design.

  • World Firsts

    Ian Ritchie Architects have been involved in many architectural innovations that have been realised in glass, stone and metal construction.

  • History

    Ian Ritchie established Ian Ritchie Architects in 1981. The creative design philosophy of the practice emerged from a research and investigative approach based upon its social, aesthetic, and ecological values allied to spatial, physical, and technical performance within the political and landscape context. Since the 1980s, Ian Ritchie Architects has enjoyed collaborations with artists, mathematicians, physicists, musicians and others, some very well known, others less so, but all to the benefit of the client’s project.

  • Philosophy

    “Design is informed by an investigative and creative approach based upon our own social, aesthetic, and ecological values, those of the client, the physical and socio-political context and the required performance.”

  • Ethical Policy

    Ian Ritchie Architects seek to achieve in our work better social and environmental design solutions through genuine collaboration and intelligent design.

  • Environmental Policy

    Ian Ritchie Architects has been committed to an environmentally sustainable design approach since the practice was established in 1981.

  • Safety Policy

    Ian Ritchie Architects has always strived to create a humane organisation where the welfare of people is of central concern.

  • Quality Assurance

    Quality control is central to all Ian Ritchie Architects Limited activities. It is the essence of realising our architecture and leaving both a satisfied client and user.

  • Employment Policy
    Ian Ritchie Architects fully adheres to the Equality Act 2010 on equality and diversity.