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Four contemporary East Coast homes by Bates Masi + Architects: Your Next Employer?

2024-02-26T10:50:00-05:00

Following last week’s visit to Santa Monica-based KoningEizenberg, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to New York this week to explore the work of Bates Masi + Architects.

From their studios across New York City and East Hampton, the five-decades-old firm operates along a principle that each project regardless of type or scale offers “the opportunity to enrich lives and enhance the environment.” The studio has built a varied portfolio of urban and suburban residences, schools, offices, hotels, restaurants, retail, and furniture, adding that “the attention to all elements of design has been a constant in the firm’s philosophy.”

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring for an Architectural Designer to join their East Hampton office. For candidates interested in applying for a position, or anybody interested in learning about the firm’s output, we have rounded up four contemporary residential projects on the East Coast by Bates Masi + Architects that exemplify...

TenBerke transforms old stables into artist residences in Montauk, New York

2023-06-21T11:38:00-04:00

TenBerke has unveiled its design for an artist residence in Montauk, New York. Housed in a former horse stable dating back to the 1920s, the scheme will host artists as part of the Edward F. Albee Foundation.

Image credit: TenBerke

The building, known as “The Barn,” has accommodated foundation-supported artists for over 50 years. TenBerke’s rehabilitation of the 3,300-square-foot structure will feature a shared library space that houses many of Albee’s own books and records and renovated sleeping quarters that offer each artist in residence a bedroom and private bathroom.

Image credit: TenBerke

On the lower level, an expanded communal kitchen faces out onto surrounding wetlands, while a new elevator makes both levels accessible for all. The project will also see a 1,400-square-foot cottage rebuilt as a residence for the property’s caretaker. Throughout the revamp, a material palette of concrete and wood is intended to “age gracefully over time.”

Existing barn. Image credit: TenBerke

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Five expressive timber interiors by SKOLNICK: Your Next Employer?

2023-01-23T15:27:00-05:00

Following last week’s visit to entertainment venue specialists Populous, we are using this week’s edition of our Meet Your Next Employer series to explore the work of Sag Harbor and New York City-based SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership.

Operating across their New York and Hamptons studios, SKOLNICK defines their approach as ‘designing from the inside out.’ Offering services in building design, exhibitions, and master planning since 1980, the firm has collaborated with clients including the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Cooper Union.

“Our goal is to unearth the compelling stories that underlie every design situation,” the firm explains on its Archinect profile, which also includes 20 projects from the firm. “We start with the beliefs and visions of the client first, while taking into account the intricacies of the site a...

The new Peter Marino Art Foundation opens in a restored Hamptons library

2021-07-13T15:01:00-04:00

The new Peter Marino Art Foundation opened on Long Island’s East End last month, revealing to the public for the first time the famed collection of the prodigious architect known worldwide for his retail spaces and Leather Daddy aesthetic.

The Foundation is housed in the former Rogers Memorial Library purchased in 2018 from the town of Southampton. The library was the former home of the Parrish Art Museum and was being rented by decor retailer One Kings Lane before the sale.

Marino was able to overhaul the 126-year-old structure originally designed by R.H. Robertson, carefully restoring the 8,000-square-foot space that retained some of its original elements such as its Gothic towers and porcelain-tiled first-floor mantel. The project also added new features that complement the original interior, including a parquet floor and bluestone outdoor walkway. A new garden inspired by Warren H. Manning has also been installed, transforming the original arboretum into a replica of the one on ...

Price hit an all-time low for the "lifespan-extending" Bioscleave House on Long Island

2021-07-01T20:31:00-04:00

Prices for a famed duo’s only realized US home seem to be on a permanent decline this month after hitting the market almost three years ago.

The Bioscleave House sits amongst exclusive real estate in the Hamptons and was the planned home of a pair of artists who together formed an entity now called the Reversible Destiny Foundation in 1988.

Arakawa and Madeline Gin were able to complete the house as an extension of an A-frame Carl Koch design from 1964 present at the one-acre site. The couple added two bedrooms, a bathroom and a sunken kitchen to the 2,700 square foot home they painted 52 different colors at a cost of over $2 million.

Image via Madeline Gins and Arakawa.

The house is now being listed on Zillow for $975,000, a 60% decrease from its original 2018 listed price. Buyers willing to try the bold experiment in living can enjoy the challenge of living in a home with uneven floors and a sloped front door. The design of the house is meant to challenge the occupants body and i...

Six modules and an undulating roof come together for new residence by Young Projects

2021-06-23T18:29:00-04:00

New York-based architecture practice Young Projects has completed a 3,500-square-foot modular home located on a verdant, two-acre lot in Bridgehampton, New York.

Called Six Square House, the residence is made up of six 24’ by 24’ gabled modules that are arranged to align roof ridges and create continuity between the modules. In contrast, each module’s roof eaves flow upward and downward, resulting in a variety of undulating surfaces and perspectives across the exterior and interior of the home. The building is clad in deep gray, slatted Accoya wood, which works to highlight the roof’s dynamic edges and arcs. Its exterior wood cladding and wood roof cladding was designed and manufactured by reSAWN TIMBER co.

Six Square House sits adjacent to a historic 1850 farmhouse. The home is the nucleus of the property, surrounded by a new pool house, gunite pool, and ipe deck. The old farmhouse has become the guest home. Six Square House was designed as a contemporary counterpart to the farmho...

Gorgeously renovated art center 'The Church' opens in Sag Harbor

2021-04-08T13:56:00-04:00

The Church, a nonprofit arts center in Sag Harbor, N.Y., founded by the artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik, will begin to welcome visitors on April 15. Two tours of the center, a former Methodist church built in 1832, will be offered daily, Thursday through Monday.

After housing the Methodist Church of Sag Harbor from the early eighteen-hundreds until 2008, the historic structure was recently renovated by New York firm SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership. The 12,000-square-foot adaptive reuse intervention created flexible spaces for exhibition as well as making, a resource library, a public garden, and on-site accommodations for an artist-in-residence program.

Take a look at some images of The Church from the architects' firm profile on Archinect where you can learn more about the project and the renovation team.

Photo: Scott Frances

The NYT takes a tour of Richard Meier’s summer house in the Hamptons

2017-08-01T16:34:00-04:00

The man known for his modern, white, geometrically intricate buildings spends his summers in a simple, cedar-shingled farmhouse built in 1907 that he bought from the family of the original owners in 1984. On a July afternoon, Mr. Meier was in his study there, painting watercolors.