Paul Finch questions why buildings cost so much. A question still relevant today and one that should concern us all. By chance I found myself talking about this question of cost to Ian Ritchie, who has a well-deserved reputation for producing fine architecture extremely economically. Famously, his firm delivered temporary and brilliant facilities for the […]

Trident Park is a new office development in Malta and was approved unanimously by the Malta Planning Authority on 7th December 2017.

Ian Ritchie Architects ‘Ginger Root Industries’ for the Museum of Architecture's Gingerbread City is being exhibited at 27 Thurlow Street, London SW7 2LQ, 5th - 22nd December 2017.

On Thursday 7th of December 2017 at Tate Modern Ian Ritchie gave the opening speech at The Glass Supper international conference organised by Intelligent Glass Solutions.

SWC and RSC TOP have been shortlisted in the 2018 Civic Trust Awards.

Members of AdK Ian Ritchie and Francisco Mandago have selected two scholars for the Junge Akademie International Fellowship Programme.

CIOB Construction Manager of the Year Gold Winner - Residential 2017 - Gerry Lavelle of Osborne

Ian Ritchie Architects have been selected by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine following competitive interview to deliver a strategy and implement the transformation of 20,000m2 of research laboratories, education and support spaces within their Keppel Street Grade II Listed building into an exceptional facility over the next 5 years.

Ian Ritchie is Great Speaker at SHARE Bucharest International Architecture & Engineering Forum 2017 where he will present the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL is the winner in the category of Excellent Communications Design Architecture

Ian Ritchie will be a guest speaker at SHARE International Architecture and Engineering Forum, Budapest 2017 on 16th October 2017.

We are delighted to announce Mercers Walk is a finalist for the Building Magazine Project of the Year 2017 Award sponsored by Schueco.

Gordon Talbot, iRAL Projects Director is a panelist at the 'Surface and Materials Hub' at UK Construction Week on Wednesday 11th of October at the NEC, Birmingham.

The Limerick Civic Trust Presents its 2017 Autumn Lecture Series ‘Things Fall Apart’ - But Can the Centre Hold? Peripherality and Centrality in Ireland and Europe.

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On Saturday 16 September 2017, 1-5pm, two architects will host a Q&A session in the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre lecture theatre.

We are delighted to announce that the 20th Century Society has selected Eagle Rock House in East Sussex as the house of 1982.

The Akademie der Künste has invited Ian Ritchie to form the jury to select the recipient of the 2018 Berlin Art Prize (Baukunst).

20th July saw the topping out with the placing of the glass to the Recital Hall cupola. The pictures show the Principal Jonathan Freeman-Attwood with the architect, Ian Ritchie. ‘Topping Out’ is traditionally when the building’s construction reaches its highest point, and was organised by the contractor – Osborne. The new Opera – Theatre and […]

Ian Ritchie: ‘The Garden Bridge’s backers live in an alternate reality defined by privilege’ There must be a reckoning on the Garden Bridge and it must not happen again, writes Ian Ritchie Download the full article. Original article here.

An article written by Albert Einstein in May 1949 that appeared in the first issue of the socialist journal Monthly Review which seems pertinent to the world of today. “Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of […]

iRAL are delighted to have three projects selected as World Architecture Festival Awards finalists: Mercers Walk 'Mixed Use' and 'Best Use of Colour'; Royal Shakespeare Company's The Other Place (TOP) New & Old; and Royal Academy of Music's Opera Theatre and Recital Hall Future Projects.

iRAL are pleased to announce Sainsbury Wellcome Centre as the winner of the 2017 Duplex Award at the Galvanising Awards. This is the 6th win for SWC having won 2 RICS awards, 2 European awards (LEAF) and BCI Major Project of the Year 2016.

iRAL are pleased to announce Mercers Walk as the 2017 Winner of the Constructing Excellence Building of the Year Award (London and South East). “a remarkably complex project with outstanding outcomes despite its challenging location and associated restrictions.” The principal contractor was Osborne. The design team was led by Ian Ritchie Architects with engineering by […]

We are honoured to announce our participation with Tim Morgan, sculptor, for the Sousse and Bardo Memorial competition held by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The memorial will commemorate the victims of the Port El Kantaoui and Bardo National Museum terrorist attacks in 2015. The winning submission from the eight shortlisted designers will be announced […]

Margaret Thatcher wanted to destroy socialism and promoted individualism at the expense of those who had no means. Her ideology elevated individual greed to the status of a moral good while social solidarity became an intrinsic evil. She more or less succeeded, and prepared the way for Brexit. Subsequent Conservative governments have carried on her […]

RIBA North will open on the 17th of June with the inaugural exhibition Liverpool(e): Mover, Shaker, Architectural Risk-Taker - original drawings and models from the RIBA Collection. A newly commissioned film features an interview with Ian Ritchie.

Ian Ritchie (façade), Gordon Talbot (concrete in architecture) and Anthony Summers (metal in architecture) are pleased to be jury members of the WAN Awards 2017.

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL is the 2017 Winner of the prestigious RICS Project of the Year Award (London) and Design through Innovation Award.

In an interview by ‘Grouse Beater’ for iScot, Ian Ritchie gives his opinion of Scottish urban renewal policies, The Spire of Dublin, collaboratively designing Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and Brexit. Click here to read the full interview.

Ian Ritchie is delighted to be a member of the ‘super jury’ at the World Architecture Festival Awards in Berlin on 15th – 17th November 2017. Ian will be joined by: Robert Ivy (Chief Executive Officer of AIA) – Chair Christoph Ingenhoven (Ingenhoven Architects) Nathalie de Vries (MVRDV)

Shane O'Toole has a new book - a collection of 101 of his essays, 1999-2016, published by Gandon Editions. The Spire of Dublin is featured prominently.

Ian Ritchie is a speaker at this year’s RIAS Convention, 12th – 13th May 2017. It will be held at The Engine Shed, Stirling – a disused, former military building in Stirling’s Forthside area, Historic Environment Scotland’s (HES) brand new building conservation hub. Ian, a RIAS Honorary Fellow, will be talking about his recent work and on Saturday will be […]

Leipzig Glass Hall, the centrepiece of the new Leipzig’s Exhibitions Fair was inaugurated on 12th April 1996, by the German President Roman Herzog. After a two year construction period the project of one million sqm with an overall value of 1.3 billion Deutsch Marks was completed on schedule. Masterplanners and architects Von Gerkan Marg invited […]

Karl Singporewala will present a paper at the IABSE Conference 19-20th April which is focused upon instilling imagination and innovation in structural design. He will describe a new type of translucent pre-fabricated structural cast glass assembly with high thermal performance, good light transmission and acoustic rating that forms a large part of the Sainsbury Wellcome […]

Ian Ritchie will discuss Ethics and Morality at the Liverpool School of Architecture with fellow professors Nick Ray, Michael Wilford, Alan Dunlop and Dr Rosa Urbano Gutierrez. The discussion will take place on Tuesday 28th March, chaired by Johanna Muszbek.

The Wellcome Trust is holding its first Hub Workshop on 27th March and has invited 60 individuals from museums, galleries, public spaces, research centres and cultural institutions across the UK and Europe to present different examples of collaborative, experimental and publicly situated ways of working. Ian Ritchie has been invited to talk about how architecture […]

Ian Ritchie is speaking at the Architectural Policies Conference & EFAP General Assembly - The New in the Old - Contemporary Architecture in a Historic Context, 23rd- 25th March 2017 at the University Of Malta – Valletta Campus.

“A rich programme has been effortlessly incorporated into a tricky heritage context” iRAL are delighted to have received a commendation for the Royal Academy of Music at the AR Future Projects Awards in MIPIM on 15th March. This design changes the shape of the Royal Academy of Music’s existing 1970’s fan-shaped theatre, increases capacity by […]

Ian Ritchie Architects and their client Farsons are presenting the model of the Malta Farsons project at MIPIM as part of the UK Department of International Trade pavilion.

DOM has published a handsome volume copiously illustrated covering architectural archives and collections from the Akademie in Berlin. This 560 page book presents the collection beautifully. It was edited by Eva-Maria Barkhofen, archivist at the Akademie. Ian Ritchie’s contribution to the collection is included which features many celebrated architects, engineers and others working in the […]

iRAL are delighted that the restoration, rehabilitation and conversion of the Farsons Old Brewhouse has received unanimous approval by the Maltese planning authority MEPA. iRAL and TBA Periti local architects and engineers, presented the project to the board at the public hearing on the 12th January. It was noted that the design will breathe new […]

The iRAL design of a residential and retail scheme including a new urban route and piazza in Covent Garden for The Mercers opened with the launch of H&M’s new Covent Garden store on December 8th.

The launch of Neural Architects: The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre: From Idea to Reality by Georgina Ferry will be celebrated at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre on Thursday 9th February. Attendance by invitation only. Read about the book here.