Sir David Chipperfield, CBE

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Sir David Chipperfield has built a number of fine art galleries in the UK, including the new Turner Contemporary in Margate, and the River and Rowing Museum in Henley. He has also built extensively in London, including the controversial Elizabeth House development by Waterloo Station. He is a vocal advocate for the development of a better UK planning culture. He is renowned for his painstaking reconstruction and re-ordering of Berlin’s Museum Island and the redesign of its Neues Museum after its destruction during World War II. Chipperfield was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2009, and in 2011 he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, which is given in recognition of a lifetime’s work and is approved personally by The Queen. He was appointed Knight Bachelor for services to architecture in the UK and Germany in 2011.

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