This week on Dezeen, The American Institute of Architects awarded James Stewart Polshek its highest accolade of the year, while RIBA picked seven students to receive the 2017 President's Medals. 
A virtual reality version of a gated community in Las Vegas and a modular solution to London's housing crisis were among the seven winning student projects chosen for this year's RIBA President's Medals, which marked the first year that students from the University of Nottingham and The Cooper Union were awarded the prize.
RIBA President Ben Derbyshire praised the student's "focus on the important role that architecture plays in social betterment" at an awards ceremony in London.
James Stewart Polshek to receive 2018 AIA Gold Medal Ennead Architects co-founder James Stewart Polshek, known for designing the Clinton Presidential Center in Arkansas and his renovation of New York's Carnegie Hall, was awarded the 2018 AIA Gold Medal this week.
Discussing the reasons for his selection, the AIA pointed to Polshek's "sensitivity as an architect" and work to "restore the promise that architecture can be an uplifting force in the world".
Commonwealth Institute building destroyed in Design Museum conversion, says heritage body
UK heritage body Twentieth Century Society claimed the conversion of London's former Commonwealth Institute into the new Design Museum had ruined the listed building, lamenting the loss of a "magnificent post-war masterpiece"....