A student from the University of the Free State in South Africa has been named the recipient of this year’s RIBA Silver Medal for her design project reinterpreting a rural slave-trade memorial in Malawi, her home country. The RIBA President’s Medals celebrate outstanding work from architecture students worldwide, with this year’s edition attracting a record number of submissions, according to the institute

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Source: Architects’ Journal
Image: University of the Free State, South Africa