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Because sometimes the holidays are even more enjoyable in a new city. Here are the best Thanksgiving destinations to visit in the United States.

Because sometimes the holidays are even more enjoyable in a new city. Here are the best Thanksgiving destinations to visit in the United States.

© David Richter, FAIA The designs integrated and expressed response to the breadth of sustainable design opportunities is the mechanism for creating and conveying this message. The rhythm and silhouette of photovoltaic, clerestoried roof monitors echo distant mountains. Colored brick strata and weathered steel extend the patterns and colors of the desert earth and grasses that reach the horizon. Terraced native landscaping and a sculpted ground plane convey the story of the scarcity, the harve...

Outlawed  My favorite literary experiences are genre-bending works that defy categorization—but its a bonus when books turn out to be gender-benders, too, blurring the binaries past man, woman, straight, gay. Take the poem "Witch-Wife" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. It begins in the voice of someone, presumably a man, adding up a womans charms in the style of a folk ballad: "She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,/And her mouth on a valentine." Two stanzas later, the poem becomes a feminist,...

The gold medal is the top award presented annually by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to a professional whose work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. Since the gold medal was established in 1947, the AIA has honoured the work of important architects from all over the world with the award, from such historic masters of the Modernist movement as Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier to such well-known and ...

Jamey Stillings © Mazria, Inc. Edward Mazria The American Institute of Architects has named Edward Mazria, FAIA, as the 2021 AIA Gold Medal winner, recognizing the outstanding efforts of the Santa Fe, N.M.–based Architecture 2030 founder to raise awareness about the role of the built environment in climate change among the design and construction industries, political leaders, and the general public. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the architect attended Pratt Institute before spurning a draft pick ...

Edward Mazria wins AIA Gold Medal for 2021 American architect Edward Mazria has scooped the 2021 AIA Gold Medal prize in recognition of "his unwavering voice and leadership" in the architecture industrys fight against climate change. The esteemed Gold Medal award, which is the AIAs highest annual honour, is given to architects in recognition of their contribution to the field. The institute said Brooklyn-born Mazria was selected by the jury for his longstanding dedication to "motivating the pr...