The design for a new footbridge over the River Avon proposes a simple and elegant way of stepping from one side of the river to the other.

The Royal Shakespeare Company has a new temporary theatre. It received planning permission on 10th March 2005 from the Stratford-on-Avon District Council It is known as the Courtyard Theatre and was completed in June 2006. It will be home to the RSC's main ensemble from 2007and be used during the Complete Works Festival from July 7th 2006, starting with Michael Boyd's Henry VI trilogy.

Ian Ritchie Architects have extended their offices. The new building extends the upper floor over the existing parking area, enabling all staff to be regrouped on the upper level.

Our concept is based upon the BMW factory being concealed, secretive yet fascinating - a beautiful mystery full of dreams.

Ian Ritchie Architects were appointed by Berkeley Homes to design a mixed use development of cultural, commercial and residential uses on this very prominent site adjacent to a World Heritage site of the Tower of London, conservation areas and listed structures.

Magna Carta was written in 1215. Begun in1220, the Cathedral's buildings are unique in that they were all built in one period over several decades. The composition of the Cathedral with the Vestry, Chapter House, the Cloister and the surrounding landscape creates an exceptional spatial context for the new building.

Our exhibition proposal entitled "Water, Gold of the 21st Century", was won in competition and installed inside Europe's tallest gasometer in Autumn 2001. It enjoyed an extended run until 28th April 2002, by which time more than 290,000 people had seen it. The project was sponsored by RWE, and produced by Gasometer GmbH. "What in water did Bloom, water lover, drawer of water, water carrier returning to the range, admire? Its universality: its democratic quality." (James Joyce, Ulysses)

The weaving together of the beauty of trapped light, and the complete light-powered personal communicator incorporating huge optical memory storage has inspired us to propose a woven fabric of changing light which communicates Milan’s world renown as the centre of fashion and design style, quality and innovation.

The New Hammersmith and City Line Station will be located on Wood Lane, W12, London between the existing stations at Latimer Road and Shepherds Bush. It is the first new station to be constructed on an existing and unextended Tube line for over 70 years.

The Hayward Gallery, London, invited Ian Ritchie Architects to design the first ever exhibition dedicated to sound art - an exhibition curated by David Toop.

We were commissioned in 1999 by Warwick Charlton of Spacetime Centre Ltd.to develop the architectural concept for his and Stephen Hawking's Spacetime Centre. The Centre has the endorsement and participation of Professor Stephen Hawking, whose best selling book 'A Brief History of Time' inspired the idea. The architectural concept is based upon a number of spheres and hemispheres below, upon and above a ground plane which house immersive theatres.

120 metres high and 3 metres in diameter at the base, the tapering monument will rise above O’Connell Street, breaking above the roof line with as slender and elegant a movement as is technically possible. Its structure and surfaces respond to the character and climate of the Irish landscape.

Ian Ritchie Architects were commissioned by Chelsfield plc in December 1997 to re-conceive a Master Plan and Architecture for the urban regeneration of approximately 15 hectares at White City, London, as a local and regional shopping and leisure destination together with the creation of major new public transport interchanges for west London.

The intention of the New Production Centre is to create a Centre of Excellence, providing the facilities and flexibility for the Theatre Royal to maintain its outstanding home productions, for the Main Theatre, Drum, and Pavilions, as well as for associate productions, such as the previous successes of Buddy, Jolson and Oliver. The facility will centralise all the production activities, including the construction of sets, costumes and props, combined with rehearsal and education spaces.

Ian Ritchie Architects won an international competition in June 1997 to design innovative social housing on a site in East Glasgow overlooking Glasgow Green. The client, Thenew Housing Association, are being supported by Scottish Homes and Glasgow UK City of Architecture & Design 1999. The 1999 programme’s aim is to celebrate the best in contemporary architecture and design to improve the quality of living in the city.

In March 1996, Ian Ritchie Architects won a competition for the design of a permanent concert platform in the Crystal Palace Park, London. Our concept for the concert platform was developed from an understanding and recognition of the primary importance of the Paxton landscape.

The siting, form and external architecture of this theatre have been influenced by this world heritage site. History, gravitas, stone, the space and light qualities of the riverspace, the spectacular views, night-time illumination of the Tower and Tower Bridge, the park by the river and the tourists appropriation of the riverside park, have all contributed to our conceptual thinking. The auditorium will seat approximately 2,350.

Ian Ritchie Architects were invited in 1995 by Electricité de France to compete against 7 other teams in an international competition to design a new series of very high voltage pylons - 225kV and 400kV. The concept was developed upon a philosophical investigation into the contemporary meaning of progress. The design concept is based upon a single level configuration of the conductors, which reduces the height of pylons producing a horizontal and discreet expression.

The centre provides permanent facilities for local, national and international rowing activities organized by the Royal Albert Dock Trust. The site is located at the Northwestern corner of the Royal Albert Dock adjacent to the finishing line of the newly extended 2000 metre long rowing course, providing London and the southeast of England with its first olympic standard rowing facility.

Having won an international competition in 1992, Professor Marg invited Ian Ritchie Architects to collaborate with him together with IPP Ingenieurbüro and HL-Technik in the design and realisation of the huge glass "wintergarden" which is the centrepiece of the new Leipzig International Exhibition Centre.

The greenhouse leans symbolically against the hill. Its clear glass flat roof reflects, like a lake, the changing sky and the foliage of the surrounding trees.The building was conceived as a reference library and research centre on plants as well as a public performance space for theatre, conferences, exhibitions and other municipal events. It has also been conceived to be a peaceful sheltered space and a tea house in the garden project designed by the landscape artist Kathryn Gustafson.

Ian Ritchie Architects were invited to a limited international competition to design an academy on the site of a former coal pit in Herne in August 1991. The buildings containing the seminar rooms, administration, residential accommodation and leisure facilities are placed along a new landscape route connecting the town centres of Herne and Sodingen through a new woodland park.

We were appointed in 1992 to design an extension to the existing primary school in Daours, Somme, France. The concept was to create a modern reflection of the existing building, and in doing so creating a common, spatially exiting coverd and enclosed entrance.

Vent and escape shafts are provided at stations and at 1000m intervals between stations along the Jubilee Line Extension. Ian Ritchie Architects designed the architecture for 6 shafts between London Bridge and Canary Wharf, one being part of Bermondsey Station.

Bermondsey is one of 11 stations for the proposed East London Extension of the London Underground Jubilee Line. The design seeks to bring a perceptible sensitivity and ambiance to the public through the use of natural light and clear spatial experience. This is expressed on the surface and within the station and in so doing responds positively to the demands of security, durability and safety.

Four gently cambered steel bridges, some inclined, some horizontal, seemingly suspended from fragile glass walls. The bridges connect the different themes of the exhibition and the generously curved deck of each bridge is a pause in space offering a glimpse of man in his surroundings - a visual game of "reflective hide and seek with the environment".

Ian Ritchie Architects were invited to design the external animation of the new Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art by means of three 35m high glass satellite towers for vertical circulation. The project was commissioned in 1989 and was completed in 1990.

Commissioned in October 1988 to design, detail and supervise the construction within 52 weeks to a fixed budget of a 90,000 ft sq industrial/office facility building in the celebrated Stockley Park Development. The concept of the building, arranged on 3 floors caters for single or multi-tenancy occupation, and is the first of this size at Stockley Park to allow this.

'Poiesis is the cause which makes whatever one considers change from non-being to being' (Plato)
....In a japanese bay, a gigantic ring of water and light harbours a vessel. From this point, using the world wide teletext network, a computer image is assembled and rediffused by TV channels all over the world. Over and above languages and cultures, Men create a never-ending work of Art; an image reflecting the interrelations and the complexity of our Universe....

Dubai's memory is linked to the historical, natural and intellectual richness of the Arabo-Persian Gulf. Although pearl diving no longer exists off Dubai's shores, the pearls from Dubai are still alive in the whole world's memory. This monument, together with the proposed museum beneath the Pearl, will set the scene for this idea of "memory" linked to the Gulf: water, sea, life and energy. The life-giving sea bordering the park recalls to all visitors these symbols.

The architecture of the scheme was informed by a need to respect the quality of the existing conservation area riverside housing, to create positively a 'street-house' relationship, both on Narrow Street and within the new development itself, consistent with the historical residential footprint of the area and to create a meaningful urban landscape.

The challenge to the chemist was to accept the 'village' location, as against the "High Street" and in this recognition to believe in the public service he was providing, in particular to the old and mothers and children. The architecture thus stepped back from the road edge and the shop opened up as a generous and welcoming volume, with its reception service table, including magazines and toys as its - the opposite to hard sell - more soft, concerned service.

These roof designs for the Sculpture Courts have integrated structure and glazing to create a shadow tempered environment, together with a 'virtual curved surface' which provides a sense of enclosure while permitting natural lighting of the new galleries below.

Opposite the Naval College at Greenwich, on the north bank of the Thames, it forms a stone amphitheatre to the water edge, thus allowing the River Thames to become the stage, the architecture of Christopher Wren and Inigo Jones to be the stage set and the Royal Greenwich Observatory to be the fly tower.

RFR were asked to review the scheme design of the Pyramid structure and glazing in 1985, and some months later to design and erect a full scale mock-up on the site for review by President Mitterand, M. Chirac, and M. Pei. In 1987 RFR acted as consultants to EPGL/Pei/Macary to control and refine the design of the structure with CFEM/EIFFEL, the contractor.

This project, of pure research, funded jointly by the French Government (via La Villette) and the Electricity Board of France, sought to understand the nature and behaviour of electrical discharge and create designs. In the short term, if the preliminary experimentation was successful, a 20 metre high "cascade annulaire" would be installed as part of the animation in the central façade bioclimatique of the Science Museum of La Villette.

Designed to light naturally the main entrance area of the museum, this roof of over 2000m² has been specially designed following a conscious geometrical hierarchy to transform the awkward dimensions of the existing building's main structure.

The architectural and engineering design and realisation of 3 grand bioclimatic facade elements and the central roof of the new National Museum of Science, Technology and Industry for France.

An essay in sequential space, geometry and light/shade modulation. The client's wish for a bird form is translated through the articulated structure and suspended wing; the tail as a trapped 'crystal greenhouse' protecting plants as a counterpoint to the natural landscape; the movement of the external blinds as a play on ruffling feathers responding to the climate; the loft (bird's head) is the focus and energy centre.

'Living in a garden beneath a well insulated umbrella'

The core of the house - kitchen, bath, utility and energy centre is precisely organised to respond to the surrounding user areas as well as to concentrate essential capital - thus releasing the remaining funds as far as possible to create 'internal space' within a garden.