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MIA+BSI 2016 Study Tour: Autumn in Vermont

Stone Update

18-20 event includes quarry tours and plenty of the state’s fall foliage.

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Quarry Tour Takes Industry to Elberton and Tate Georgia - Brings the Marble Institute of America and Elberton Granite Assocation Together

StoneDimensions

For years, the Marble Institute of America (MIA) has led study tours to quarries around the USA, Canada, and abroad. Environmental Protection Agency to produce two new scientific studies looking into the safety of granite quarry and fabrication workers with respect to radon and radiation exposure. It was two days of intense networking.

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The Most Searched for Furniture Item in Each State

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming all voted for individual items. Key takeaways from the study. See them below: Find your state on this list.

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Los Angeles Apartments: The Ultimate Renters Guide

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

A 2013 study found that Downtown is home to more than 500,000 jobs in fields like government, fashion, retail and tech. Its recent renaissance began in the early 2000s, when old buildings started being repurposed as hip hotels, restaurants, loft living and offices, and skyscrapers were built. Several bus lines run 24-hour service.

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Thomas Jayne: American Decoration, A Sense of Place

The Perfect Bath

Thomas’ interest in architecture and decoration started with his family’s legacy of houses that ranged from the Plymouth colony to a Vermont tavern, an Italianate Villa in Iowa and a California Craftsman style bungalow amongst others. Even the re-decoration of his boyhood room by painting the walls White House red.

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What to Get an Architect for Christmas [2018]

Life of an Architect

This follow-up, Studio Joy Works, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his firm’s founding and continues the careful documentation of the growing body of his important work, including houses in Vermont and California, his first public project, a train station in Princeton, New Jersey, and residences abroad in Mexico and Turks and Caicos.

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Proof that Architects are not Boring | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

True Story: he does not have an accent and is in fact just a normal guy named Johnathan who lives in Vermont. I have a tattoo of my city on the upper half of my right arm, it’s really, really cool. I count planes. Instead of steps. I’ve been doing this since I was at least six, probably longer.

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