David Chipperfield Awarded the Royal Gold Medal

On a more positive note about an architect, just days after Zaha Hadid finally won herself a Stirling Prize, the Royal Institute of British Architects, along with the Queen of England, handed out an award that gets much less fanfare but is equally as respected, the Royal Gold Medal. This year’s winner is David Chipperfield, who won the Stirling last year and had met with the Queen back in January when he was knighted. The Guardian‘s Jonathan Glancey brings up the fact that this