We Made It: Stufish Entertainment Architects

While most set designers come from an art or theatre background, Ric Lipson has parlayed his architectural training into an unusual skillset: designing not just what goes on inside entertainment venues, but the buildings themselves. At his studio Stufish Entertainment Architects, founded by the late Mark Fisher in the mid 1990s, the team provides anything from a mic stand up to creating new and complex edifices.

They’ve worked on tours for the likes of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Queen, a Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas show, West End hits like We Will Rock You, and one-off events such as the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony and The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert. Their current challenge involves holograms and Martian invasion, as they take on a retooled musical incarnation of The War of the Worlds, now playing at the Dominion Theatre.

Read the full interview on the Bruichladdich site.

• Find out more about Stufish Entertainment Architects
• The War of the Worlds is at Dominion Theatre until 30 April
• Read other articles in We Made It, our series on craft in partnership with Bruichladdich

Gallery: Click image to enlarge. All images © Stufish Entertainment Architects

Ric Lipson (third from right) and his Stufish Entertainment Architects team at work

Stufish Entertainments Architects computer modelling for 'War of the Worlds'

Dai Show Theatre, Xishuangbanna, China 2015

Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour, Montreal, September 2015

AC/DC Rock or Bust stadium tour, Holland, May 2015

We Will Rock You, Dominion Theatre, 2002

Dai Show, Xishuangbanna, China 2015

U2’s iNNOCENCE & eXPEREINCE TOUR, Vancouver, May 2015