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On the Virtues of Small Projects - As we were putting together the awards, competitions, completed buildings, exhibition, and monographs for our biannual Selected News from Selected Architects, one of the projects that stood out is Min | Day's design for the Bemis InfoShop in Nebraska. The design reminds us of the qualities of small projects—details, tactility, experimentation, and craft—that occur even with small budgets. The design also reminds us that these qualities should be considered whatever the scale of a project. jh

Bemis InfoShop reception desk & wall. Photo: Larry Gawel

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Nanne de Ru Appointed Director of The Berlage – The Dutch architect has been appointed Director of the Berlage Center for Advanced studies in Architecture and Urban Design at the Delft University of Technology.

2013 Wheelwright Prize Winner – Brooklyn's Gia Wolff is the recipient of the first traveling fellowship open to architects outside of Harvard GSD since 1935.

Road Crew Destroys Mayan Pyramid – Workers in Belize partially destroyed a 2,300-year-old pyramid to use the crushed rock for road fill.

Is Charles Correa "India's Greatest Architect"? – A major RIBA exhibition in London presents the architect's five-decade-long career.

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Robinson Nature Center

Nature centers are a fairly specific building type that allow architects to enrich people's experiences of architecture, the natural environment, and their interaction. Nature centers also call for sustainable architecture of the utmost, due to their purpose and proximity to prized natural settings. GWWO Inc./Architects has designed a number of nature centers, and the Robinson Nature Center embodies these principles.

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Selected News from Selected Architects

The heart of the World-Architects.com platform is the Profiles of Selected Architects—over 2,500 offices that are carefully chosen according to criteria of professionalism, uniqueness, and quality of design. To recognize the achievements of firms profiled on World-Architects.com, we present the second biannual roundup of Awards, Competitions, Completed Buildings, Exhibitions, and Monographs—carefully selected, just like the profiles.

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Recent Work by Zimoun

Switzerland's Studio Zimoun are masters at manipulating space and sound through the use of repetitive elements and kinetic devices. Three recent installations in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland, documented through short films, really convey the sensory qualities that result from the studio’s unexpected uses of cardboard, cork, motors, metal, and even water.

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Messe Basel's Twisted Aluminum

On April 25, the new Messe Basel building opened its doors for Baselworld, the World Watch and Jewelry Show, what is the driving force behind the new three-story addition designed by Herzog & de Meuron. With its top two floors perched above a glass base and straddling a roadway, the aluminum cladding attracts the most attention. Rippling across three elevations, the metal bands separate in some areas to admit light and hint at the exhibition spaces behind.