David Chipperfield was announced as the RIBA’s 2011 Royal Gold Medallist on 7 October 2010. The medal will be presented at the Royal Gold Medal ceremony to be held at the Royal Institute of Architects in London on 10 February 2011. Established in 1848, the Royal Gold Medal is given in recognition of a lifetime’s contribution to architecture. The Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen and is awarded annually to a person or group of people whose influence on architecture has had a truly international effect. Previous winners include Sir Edwin Lutyens, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Frank Gehry, Toyo Ito, Herzog and de Meuron, Alvaro Siza and I. M. Pei. Info: www.architecture.com