Tranquil House News Today

Truth be told, the post-World World II frenzy for straight lines and exposed concrete never really left. But it has evolved, as demonstrated by Kouichi Kimura's 'Tranquil House' in Japan.

Elizabeth II, a 69-foot replica of an Elizabethan-era ship used by the first English colonists in America, at Roanoke Island Festival Park in Manteo, North Carolina. | Dennis Lennox The site of the first English colony in America sits largely overshadowed by the famed beaches on the barrier islands that form North Carolina’s Outer Banks. In some ways this is fitting, given that the colony on Roanoke Island — explored in 1584 and later settled first in 1585 and then again in 1587 â€�...