The RIBA has announced the student winners of this year's President's Medals, with projects including a Bladerunner-esque hotel and a community of Icelandic pipe-hackers.
The Royal Institute of British Architects' President's Medals, which began in 1836, are the longest-running prizes awarded by the organisation.
This year they were awarded to seven students, studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture, the University of Bath, the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the University of Greenwich and De Montfort University.
Sonia Magdziarz won the silver medal with her project How to Carve a GiantThe Silver Medal, the most prestigious of the prizes, went to Part-2 student Sonia Magdziarz for her project titled How to Carve a Giant. Drawing on the links between communities and their cultural heritages, Magdziarz proposed a scheme for a library, workshop and archive carved into a form that tells a traditional Finnish Folktale. The project examined the preservation and dissemination of memory, and the role architects can play in this.
Magdziarz studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture and was tutored by Penelope Haralambidou, Michael Tite and Keiichi Matsuda.
Justin Bean won the Bronze Medal with his project Dreaming of Electric SheepThe Bronze Medal, for the best design project produced by a Part-1 student or equivalent, went to Justin Bean's project Dreaming of Electric Sheep.
Bean, who studied at the University of Bath wi...