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.
A two-story, 15,232-square-foot town hall with a conference room for the Town Board, public meeting space, and offices for the town supervisor, board members, and support staff.
Located near the eastern end of Long Island’s north fork, on a waterside bluff of the largest glacial moraine in the world, this house is a refuge for an artist/writer who escapes here from Manhattan, making plans for the house to become a permanent home.
Opening seamlessly to the tree of a former estate, this 5,300-square-food country home in a New York settlement reflects a family's desire for a luxurious—yet unpretentious—raw and comfortable retreat.
With roots in Eastern Long Island's modernist design explorations of the 1950s and 1960s, the Amagansett House mingles functional simplicity with energy conservation.
Located in the woods near the owner’s main house, this one-room personal retreat is sculptural and abstract in its form, but traditional in use of materials.