Two New York artists, seeking a respite from city life, had lofty energy-saving goals for the renovation of a modest house, built in 1975, on a jagged bluff overlooking Long Island Sound.
A unique site, wedged between the Atlantic Ocean and a freshwater pond on New York's Long Island, gave the Sagaponack House an opportunity to make the most of the scenic views.
Flouting the de rigueur style in a hamlet north of New York City, Joel Sanders Architect and Balmori Associates craft a mid-century-style home on a forested site.
A Stairway to the Treetops: A chameleonlike house'which changes with the seasons and throughout the day'provides a perch for total immersion in the surrounding woods.
The clients, for their sprawling, 365-acre working farm in Dutchess County, New York, requested a quiet weekend house patterned after Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House (1951).
In an exhibition he organized at the New Museum in New York City last year, Rem Koolhaas took the preservation movement to task, arguing that it had become an “empire” all too successful at tying the hands of architects and suffocating daring thinking.