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Travel is So Broadening

I've been on the road since yesterday. Back to the blog tomorrow, Friday. Meanwhile you can check out a new architecture toy. The American Institute of Architects has set up a new layer in Google Earth that lets you "visit" digital recreations of the buildings featured on their recent list of the 150 American buildings, bridges and monuments that a group of American voters liked the most. Go to http://earth.google.com/index.html and download the software.

It's just like being on the road yourself, except without the connecting flights.


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Richard Lacayo

Richard Lacayo writes about books, art and architecture at TIME Magazine, where he arrived in 1984. He is the co-author, with George Russell, of Eyewitness: 100 Years of Photojournalism and has won various lesser known journalism prizes, which he keeps in his desk drawer. Read more

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