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To be able to read our reality
requires a reference – our dreams –
and some of our dreams question reality’s reality.
Now I am designing with the mind in mind.
Dreams? I try to build mine
avoiding the nightmares.
This plate from the set of six is available individually. It combines all five elements of the overall design. The plate is signed and dated on the underside. Originally produced by The Royal Academy of Arts 2003.
Office Work / Layout Table
Non-drip candles 400mm high - burn for 6 hours. The candles are a 1:240 scale replica of the Spire of Dublin, the tapering monument rising above O’Connell Street, Dublin.
Special Spire candle holders made in aluminium incorporating a spiral
A ring of beauty
silent, brilliant,
motionless
and floating.
Ian Ritchie's distinctive architectural career, marked by experimentation, technological innovation and attention to ecological resources, is explored in this volume.
With his practice embracing urban planning, public sculpture, industrial design, engineering and material research, Ian Ritchie CBE RA is one of Britain’s most visionary architects. Available here are etchings which witness a profound engagement with the built environment. These calligraphic etchings imagine the shape or spirit of commissions in simple but powerful strokes.
This multi-award winning building, which was the Royal Fine Art Commission's Building of the Year, is covered in detail from concept to completion, and explains the creation of the World's favourite theatrical production centre. Its soft metal wrap of woven phosphor bronze is unique, as is the composition of the spaces and uses brought together by the client's team.
A client who I do not understand,
but whose father is a friend.
A site on a flood plain
and a client with few funds
will require a very particular strategy.
Thanks to the diminished arc,
But the future may deem that we simply
changed a letter.
Arc for Ark, and another myth for man.
They're still celebrating the opaque
wall coming down.
We, a handful of architectural players
recognise these walls, rebuilt all over Berlin,
regular stone clothed buildings
with only a little glass.
This elegant table has one constant ash veneer finish throughout including the underside, and one thickness throughout of 50mm. The table is 2m x 1m and 73cm high.
Another European competition
but one imbued with real hope.
an industrial ethos, even aesthetic,
reminiscent of the Courtyard Theatre.
Was our RSC project their inspiration?
Low-energy wall light presented to the AJ Lighting Awards jury.
This ‘conversation’ seat’s design is derived from two intersecting frusta. The conical form of the rolled stainless steel presents a soft form, and the teak seat is slid through two rectangular cuts.
This book tells the story of the Leipzig Glass Hall, designed by Ian Ritchie Architects. Erected in 1996 the building is the largest glass hall to be built in the 20th century. Emulating the publication based on Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, originally published in 1852, this beautifully produced volume - designed by Ian Ritchie - examines the historical background of the project and reveals the fascinating story of the design's evolution.
The loose drawings on cartridge with bound description all in a presentation box.
Hardback edition

This book not only offers a unique insight into the work of Ian Ritchie Architects but provides a thorough exploration into the design process and the wider forces which exist and determine the pluralism of today's architecture, in turn affecting the individual.
Zebede is a low-energy task light which has been specially designed for use at desks and computer work stations.

One hundred prototypes in silver and in black have been made by Hamburg Licht . The design has been registered in Europe.
A set of 6 plates, 5 have elements of the overall design and the 6th plate is the full image. The 6th plate is also available individually. The plates are signed and dated on the underside.
A range of door levers and fixed handles with escutcheon plates, cabinet pull handles and coat hooks.
This seat alludes to the fallen branch. It is 406mm in diameter, 4 metres in length and the stainless steel grade is EN 1.4404 / 316L ASTM, and the surface is shot-peened producing a light diffusing surface. The ends are mirror polished. It was first shown as part of Ian Ritchie Architects exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2004.

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Builders’ grilles and louvres
somehow fail to reflect
the motion of air,
and its non-linear qualities
of turbulance and pressure.
A fragment of a greenhouse
within a landscape of fragments
from imaginary continents.

Where the sun is big
and the wind is the yellow.
Risk floating, flotsam flesh
every time you put the kettle on,
for someone may, yes,
drown in Bangladesh.
We stand on the curving black beach,
we wait, eyeing the line for a sign
of the arriving train, a spark, a screech
of metal upon metal, train on time.
Ambitions and exhibitions,
omens, and Olympics
memories and futures,
all to play for and the Sidings are the foundation
for change.
A stone bounced across the water,
imagining the same with tourist coins.
From the rich south bank of Greenwich
flows the museum’s investment to the north.
Drawing inspiration from Ireland’s light
its skies, its landscape, its history
a 21st century monument by day and night.
This book not only offers a unique insight into the work of Ian Ritchie Architects but provides a thorough exploration into the design process and the wider forces which exist and determine the pluralism of today's architecture, in turn affecting the individual.
Garden table, round, etched. One of a series of round, square and rectangular tables designed using a standard 50x50x5mm angle which is used uncut, cut once or cut twice to create different leg forms of the frame. Options include table top materials and finish, frame finish, foot discs and wheels.
Office Meeting Table - designed using a standard 50x50x5mm angle which is used uncut, cut once or cut twice to create different leg forms of the frame. Options include table top materials and finish, frame finish, foot discs and wheels.
Square White Table - designed using a standard 50x50x5mm angle which is used uncut, cut once or cut twice to create different leg forms of the frame. Options include table top materials and finish, frame finish, foot discs and wheels.
Well Connected Architecture - German Edition

This book not only offers a unique insight into the work of Ian Ritchie Architects but provides a thorough exploration into the design process and the wider forces which exist and determine the pluralism of today's architecture, in turn affecting the individual.
Square Stainless Steel Table - designed using a standard 50x50x5mm angle which is used uncut, cut once or cut twice to create different leg forms of the frame. Options include table top materials and finish, frame finish, foot discs and wheels.
Round Table - designed using a standard 50x50x5mm angle which is used uncut, cut once or cut twice to create different leg forms of the frame. Options include table top materials and finish, frame finish, foot discs and wheels.
As we search for freedom,
another seeks orchids.
As we learn to build
another dreams of a house.
Dubai is a strange new city
of old culture and leisure
in search of identity.

Sea life, water and energy
drive this hot environment.
But what of its memory?
Pin-striped businessmen
capture the spirit of our time
money money money to
hurry hurry hurry to
Bitumen roads and steel rails
slide across the countryside
marking the flow of contours,
just as the viaduct’s comb
measures its topography.
A city of waves
crush an armada
at sea.
Stranded driftwood
flotsam history
unknown stories
in each piece.
Green scrubs
grey waste
within a city,
to make a whitecity.
Into the low plain of Europe
where leafless howls of winter
sing to the endless grey sky
drives the BMW enterprise
to replenish Europe’s grey streams
with more blue-white metal fish.
If it’s rusty,
and it’s red,
recyclable and temporary
then the beginning will begin.
On Anglesey,
A Pre-Roman Celtic haven,
stone burial chambers, standing stones,
and hill forts on the edge
of the Roman Empire.
Earthscaping
a cultural path
from
a city’s carscape
through
the common
stage
Cosmic capture
sunbeams measure
the turning world
the running sand
where beasts roam
The ebb and flow of life
we seem to move in circles
sometimes incomplete.

In silent thought,
an unexpected view
becomes panoramic.
A new low energy concept
for a task light.
The form suggests movement.
Its lighting is based on 21 light emitting diodes,
and is tunable between cold and warm.
We should make a positive contribution to the environment
by going a step beyond carbon neutral;
we should aim create a carbon negative scheme.
What are the ideas that could achieve such a dream?
Design for life, for life,
In love with Liverpool.
Rediscover the city,
Red and Blue
And an
Arc will go nowhere.
Slip, tide, river
cross me,slowly,
watch the light
dance upon me.
This compact book contains the history, design concept, design development, engineering, fabrication and erection of Ireland’s new monument in O’Connell Street, Dublin. It includes is a 22 minunte DVD that shows the emotion involved from the jury stage, through development and final erection in front of more than 5,000 Dubliners and RTE’s live TV coverage.
White Coffee Table - designed using a standard 50x50x5mm angle which is used uncut, cut once or cut twice to create different leg forms of the frame. Options include table top materials and finish, frame finish, foot discs and wheels.
Square Table - designed using a standard 50x50x5mm angle which is used uncut, cut once or cut twice to create different leg forms of the frame. Options include table top materials and finish, frame finish, foot discs and wheels.
To live,
beneath a well-insulated umbrella.
To live,
from space to space with sun and
to sense the rhythm of the seasons.
Grey, black, white planes of Guernica,
layers of history before me,
the painting tells me to ‘capture’ her
and let Reina Sofia’s building go free.
where how when
rush rush males
leaving vapour trails
in an English country garden
that is more a sea of Sierras.
We can measure the temperature of light,
but can we feel the colour of the wind?
The sensuality of underground public space
must bring the outside climate down.
A framed emptiness
brings down the sky
to meet the earth,
grid vault with finesse.
Aircraft appear on water
in a liquid landscape, where
the sun rises above a basin
and sets behind a rising city.
We must find
the finesse
of emptiness.

A balanced plane
of levitas
with gravitas
at peace.
A Brief History of Time
is the brief for this project.
The book everyone bought
but few have managed to read past page thirty.
With less than four months to find a new place,
see a building that needs an extension,
make a planning submission straight away,
sort the bank without delay.
A special step with upward stride
across mountain or stream,
a movement sublime.
The small family apartment has been
the “sole normal housing unit” of the 20th century.
Its morphological evolution can be seen
as social messages of salvation and hygiene
from prisons, barracks, workers lodgings,
and hospitals dormitories.
Been here before,
singing and dancing, inside,
an audience suspended
in a stone wrapped steel shell.
Fifteenth century castle squared solid against the Bay
soldiers, westerly winds and storm tides, cross section
sufficient to have given this French connection -
the ex-Norman Clanricardes, the whole of Galway.
Reintroduced to antiquity,
alongside feathers and fur
kites and coins,
prints and spaces unseen
for decades.
On tip toe
three feet apart
and two toes
resting on the earth.
How could we, the fans, allow our club,
to be hijacked by Americans?
Now it’s time to go down to the pub,
us, the innocent, enraged fans!
They want to build again,
having built so badly
upon land so visually precious.

There is no image
of any architecture that deserves
more prominence than the rocks.
An illustrated pocket book which explains the emergence and technical realisation of the most spectacular glass hall in the world. This entrance hall of the new Leipzig Exhibition Centre, covers 25,000m² and has become a favourite venue in its own right for exhibitions, boxing, dance, and launches.
In November 2004, the Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned Ian Ritchie Architects to design a one-thousand-seat theatre. It was to be sited in the centre of Stratford-upon-Avon, and to be ready to stage its first performance less than twenty months later for the start of the Complete Works Festival.
There was so much human energy visible
that worked the idea of water and motion
to build an empire of trade with the world.

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