Author: Ms. R.

Amy Johnson became one of the most inspirational and influential women of the 20th century. Born in 1903 to a fish merchant, Johnson grew up in Hull, studied economics at Sheffield University, before a failed love affair encouraged her to start a new life in London. She worked as a typist for solicitor William Charles Crocker and then seemingly on a whim, she boarded a bus to the London Aeroplane Club. Johnson became captivated with the planes and fell in……

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In 1950, architect Frank Lloyd Wright began designing a house for his friend, Dr. Isadore Zimmerman and his wife, Lucille. Always keeping his theory of organic architecture in mind, Wright designed the structure around a single concrete slab, incorporating the unique rocks and geological features of New Hampshire. As one of the few Wright designs in the northeast, it’s an interesting study of how the architect’s style adapts to the landscape of New England. After Zimmerman’s death in 1988,……

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Most Americans are familiar with the story of the Mayflower, however, what is less well known is that Plymouth was not the Mayflower’s final departure point from the Old World. Several days after it sailed a voyage of around 70 nautical miles, the Mayflower docked into the Cornish village of Newlyn. There, the crew loaded up on fresh water and adjusted its cargo while docked at the Old Quay. The rugged coastline of Cornwall has many natural harbors and fishing……

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Luis Barragán was a Pritzker Prize winning architect whose work came to represent an architectural trend born in his native Guadalajara known as the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura. He was living in retirement in mid-1970s Mexico City when Francisco “Pancho” Gilardi and Martín Luque approached him for a home design. Gilardi and Luque, partners in an advertising firm, invited an unconvinced Barragán to the site where the house was to be built. Impressed by a large jacaranda tree on the……

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On a bright, cloudless April morning, the water began to flow. As the dam gates opened, the welcome flood sheeted down a concrete spillway and onto cracked, orange-brown ground for the first time in five years. Here, in the remote northwestern corner of New South Wales, Lake Menindee, the largest of nine lakes strung together like a beaded necklace, was finally becoming a lake once more. A few weeks later, when a satellite zipped overhead, it captured Lake Menindee……

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