Submissions are now being accepted for the 2013 Palladio Awards. The 12th annual competition will recognize outstanding work in traditional design for commercial, institutional, public and residential projects.

MARBLE, Colo. — Work is under way to drive a new portal into the seam of unique white marble at Colorado Stone Quarries, Inc., in what the quarry's administrative manager, Kimberly Perrin, said is an important new development in the business.

Cambridge, MA – With home sales picking up and contractors seeing more positive business conditions in the future, remodeling activity in the U.S. is in a position to see accelerated growth by the end of this year and into 2013,

"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection," recounts British author Lawrence Durrell in his 1950s autobiographical work, "Bitter Lemons," written while living next door to a ruined 13th-century monastery in Cyprus.