Top Coastal Architects 2024
The Who’s Who in Residential Coastal Design ALABAMA Christopher Architecture and Interiors Birmingham Known for: Blending responsive architecture and thoughtful interiors to create a cohesive and inspiring environment.Highlight: New and talented staff looking forward to continued growth.Highlight: Southeast Luxe Red Award for Exterior Architecture.In the works: Projects in Alys Beach and 30A Area; Bay Area, Cal; Boulder, Col; Upstate […] The post Top Coastal Architects 2024 appeared first on Ocean Home magazine.
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The Who’s Who in Residential Coastal Design
ALABAMA
Christopher Architecture and Interiors
Birmingham
Known for: Blending responsive architecture and thoughtful interiors to create a cohesive and inspiring environment.
Highlight: New and talented staff looking forward to continued growth.
Highlight: Southeast Luxe Red Award for Exterior Architecture.
In the works: Projects in Alys Beach and 30A Area; Bay Area, Cal; Boulder, Col; Upstate New York; Lake Martin, Ala; Dallas, Texas.
Jeffrey Dungan Architects
Mountain Brook
Known for: A clean and modern approach to traditional vernaculars and classical architecture.
Highlight: New flooring collection with Texture Nashville.
Highlight: Completed projects across the US and the Caribbean.
Highlight: Work featured in Vogue Living, LUXE, Architectural Digest, and Veranda.
In the works: Projects across the US, including the Rockies, Upstate New York, the Southeast, and California, as well the UK, the Caribbean, and Central America.
CALIFORNIA
Anacapa Architects
Santa Barbara
Known for: Committed to crafting spaces that inspire and enhance the well-being of clients and the community, while preserving a legacy for future generations.
Highlight: Recognition on Architizer’s A+ List: The 220 Best Architecture and Design Firms Worldwide in 2024.
Highlight: New LEED-certified office space in Santa Barbara.
In the works: Projects in Hawaii (Big Island and Maui); a home in Portland, Oregon; a cabin in Wyoming; and several homes along the central coast of California.
Appleton Partners Architects
Santa Barbara and Santa Monica
Known for: Diverse and eclectic work, rejecting the notion that a successful design practice needs to be ‘branded’ or have a consistent signature style.
Highlight: Four Seasons Resort.
Highlight: Biltmore renovations in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Highlight: SARA (Society of American Registered Architects) CA Design Awards 2024.
In the works: Early design for the reinterpretation of the historic Valentino estate in Los Angeles, a new beachside resort in Italy, and new residences in Beverly Hills, Los Feliz, Nevada, Montecito, and Santa Barbara.
Burdge Architects
Malibu
Known for: A wide array of styles, from Coastal Modern, to Spanish, to “Rustern” (our trademark rustic-modern style).
Highlight: Employee Jeanette Tang promoted to vice president after 25 years in the interiors department.
Highlight: A Zero 2 project in the Marisol Malibu community—a Hawaiian-inspired, all-electric, zero-carbon, luxury home.
In the works: Currently working on a huge transformation of a 20,000-square-foot home in Point Dume, bringing it out of its dated 80s aesthetic into a new contemporary feel in 2024.
Butler Armsden Architects
San Francisco
Known for: Intentional and unassuming architecture that focuses on reflecting clients’ stories.
Highlight: A contemporary oceanfront home in Stinson Beach, after working with coastal regulatory agencies for 2.5 years.
Highlight: A reel of our “Modern on the Waterfront” project in Belvedere gained over 3.62 million views and earned us 11,390 new followers.
In the works: Four projects in San Francisco’s historic Sea Cliff neighborhood, three projects in Stinson Beach, and two in Belvedere, Marin County.
Evens Architects
Los Angeles
Known for: Residential architecture inspired by great traditions that explores how the language of traditional architecture can say something thoughtful and exciting.
Highlight: Shaping the World as a Home, The Houses & Gardens of Erik Evens, book published by Rizzoli, released in September 2024.
In the works: A Mediterranean estate on a multi-acre property on a ridge top in Beverly Hills, overlooking Los Angeles.
Hughes Umbanhowar Architects
Venice, CA and Hobe Sound, FL
Known for: Channeling the vocabulary and vitality of mid-century modernism to capture and control its power of light and shadow.
Highlight: 21 PROJECTS: The Architecture of Scott Hughes and John Umbanhowar updated edition now available.
Highlight: Two Jupiter Island Projects win Design Excellence Awards from the American Institute of Architecture.
Ike Baker Velten
San Francisco
Known for: Houses that draw on multiple historical sources synthesized into something that’s both familiar and fresh.
Highlight: A low-slung, modern desert house constructed primarily from brick and textured plaster with glass walls shaded from the sun offering expansive views of the majestic landscape.
In the works: The restoration of a grand, granite English-inspired mansion built in the 1920s on the shores of Penobscot Bay in Maine.
KAA Design Group
Los Angeles
Known for: Advancing the California lifestyle through contemporary architecture for 36 years and counting.
Highlight: The launch of our new book Residing in Nature by Rizzoli Inc., available worldwide; coverage in Ocean Home Magazine, AD PRO, House Beautiful, Mansion Global, Interior Design, CA Home & Design.
Highlight: Two merit awards and a Citation Award in the 2024 Living on the Edge Coastal Residential Design Awards, brought together by the AIA | Long Beach /SouthBay.
In the works: Homes and estates throughout California, the Rockies, Costa Rica, the Caribbean, and Dubai.
Kallos Turin
San Francisco and London
Known for: Combining modernist restraint and minimalist rigor with a desire to challenge a more purely reductive approach to form-making.
Highlight: New projects include a winery and boutique hotel in Argentina.
Highlight: Homes from London to California.
Highlight: High-end sushi restaurant in San Francisco.
McClean Design Group
Los Angeles
Known for: A clean aesthetic, connection with the environment, seamless boundaries between indoors and outdoors, ample light and water, and incredible views.
Highlight: The firm’s second book, Contemporary Living, focused on California residential architecture, was released.
Highlight: Tanager III, the fourth house from McClean Design on a small ultra-exclusive cul-de-sac of only nine homes in the famed Bird Streets area of West Hollywood.
In the works: Several projects in Nevada, Hawaii, Texas, Florida, and New Jersey, as well as Canada, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Landry Design Group
Los Angeles
Known for: Interpretations of traditional European styles, bold expressions of modernism, and a unique hybrid approach that harmonizes disparate themes.
Highlight: Principal Brian Pinkett, AIA, recently participated in two panels about the impact of A.I. on design, alongside other leading industry professionals.
Highlight: Luxe RED Award in 2024 for Wow-Factor Room for the entry foyer of the French chateau-inspired Beverly Hills Residence. A 2024 Gold Nugget Grand Award for Best Boards Custom/Spec Home over 10,000 square feet. Four Gold Nugget Merit Awards in the same category.
In the works: Oceanfront residential projects in California, Florida, and Hawaii; a lakefront home in Montana; and various residential projects in California, Michigan, Oklahoma, Malaysia, Singapore, China, India, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai.
Marmol Radziner
Los Angeles
Known for: A warm, modern style of design that emphasizes the relationship between architecture and nature.
Highlight: Opening of the Rainbow Garden, a nonprofit garden and teaching kitchen for young children located in Santa Monica.
Highlight: Los Angeles Business Council Multi-Family Housing Award for Beaudry, and Los Angeles Business Journal Commercial Real Estate Award for Cross Creek Ranch Malibu.
In the works: Homes in Venice, Santa Monica, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, La Jolla, Montecito, Miami Beach, Kauai, and Cabo San Lucas.
Paul Brant Williger Architect
Beverly Hills
Known for: A variety of traditional and vernacular styles including Spanish Colonial Revival, European Country houses, and Shingle Style houses.
Highlight: Several custom residential projects with well-known interior designers.
Highlight: HGTV Designer of the Year Award.
In the works: A Spanish Colonial Revival Residence in Los Angeles, a European Country House in Beverly Hills with Nate Berkus & Associates, and a remodel of a 1950’s Colonial House in Brentwood.
CONNECTICUT
Austin Patterson Disston Architecture & Design
Norwalk, CT and Quogue, NY
Known for: Bespoke projects with an intimate scale and tailored interiors, in the Hamptons, on the Connecticut shore, Palm Beach, or the Caribbean.
Highlight: Projects in Modern, Agrarian Modern and Shingle Styles, incorporating traditional and modern elements into spaces that reflect the way you live.
Highlight: 2024 Luxe Red Award—Regional Bathroom for Greater NY; Moffley A-List Award—Traditional Architecture less than 7,000 square feet.
In the works: New projects in the Hamptons, Connecticut, Florida and the Caribbean.
Cardello Architects
Westport
Known for: Designs inspired by the vision of our discerning clientele.
Highlight: Cotswold Cottage, Cast Stone Chateau, Cazenovia Lakehouse, and a home in the hills of Virginia.
Highlight: The firm’s 25th anniversary.
Highlight: Finalist for an Innovation in Design Award in Architecture and finalist for an A-list award for modern architecture.
Highlight: Riverside Sanctuary presented challenges due to the steep topography and closeness to the water’s edge.
In the works: Rock Ledge Home in Greenwich, Waterfront Estate in Darien, Southport Residence, an amazing peninsula in Virginia Beach, and a waterfront home in Greenwich.
Mark P. Finlay Architects
Fairfield
Known for: Work that reflects context and client desires, with design in every style across North America.
Highlight: Celebrated 40th anniversary this summer.
Highlight: The Black Rock home.
Highlight: Waterfront home in Darien.
In the works: A large estate on Mead Point in Greenwich, an historic renovation in Stamford and a number of homes close to but not directly on the water in Westport and Greenwich, plus a Southport Waterfront renovation and a Shingle-Style residence also in Southport.
Charles Hilton Architects
Greenwich
Known for: Fine waterfront homes and estates in the Georgian, Colonial, Tudor, Mediterranean, and Shingle styles.
Highlight: A waterfront Mediterranean home featured in the June/July issue of Ocean Home.
Highlight: 2022 Luxe RED Award, AIA CT Alice Washburn Award, Unique Application Project of the Year from Ludowici, 2022 HOBI Award, and an At Home A-List award.
Highlight: Projects in California, Oklahoma, St. Croix, Connecticut, New York, and Canada.
In the works: A California Modern house in Montecito, California (with views to the Pacific Ocean), a waterfront Caribbean home in St. Croix, and a renovation of a historic farm in Greenwich among a variety other new homes and renovations.
VanderHorn Architects
Greenwich
Known for: A variety of styles, thoroughly planned and detailed, perfected through research within our extensive office library—regardless of site and program complexity.
Highlight: Despite the challenging financial environment, we continue to attract clients seeking to build oceanfront and inland homes along an ever-increasing stretch of the northeastern seaboard.
Highlight: For the fifth consecutive year, an Alice Washburn Excellence Award in New Construction.
Highlight: Contemporary Shingle project —a more contemporary approach to the Waterfront Shingle Style for which VHA has become known.
In the works: While Greenwich and surrounding towns remain our home market, several projects are underway along the Connecticut shoreline and into Rhode Island.
Wadia Associates
New Canaan and Palm Beach
Known for: Using historical precedents in traditional architecture to inform its designs, updating them for the modern age.
Highlight: A house in Palm Beach, with another nearing completion in Vienna, Austria, and several new projects in New England.
Highlight: Palladio Award and still ranked among the Top 10 Traditional Architects in the world.
In the works: Renovation of a historic house designed by Addison Miznor in Palm Beach, and beginning work on a significant home in Colorado and others in Bal Harbour, Florida, and a seaside estate in Mumbai, India.
Shope Reno Wharton
Norwalk
Known for: Intentional, mindful collaborations and sensibilities from a love of the craft in blending classical and traditional stylistic languages with expansive fenestration and open floor plans—in well-proportioned, Shingle-style homes.
Highlight: Listed in the AD100, the Luxe Gold List, Links magazine, and Top 10 of Golf’s Most Impressive Clubhouses.
In the works: Projects on Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Rhode Island, South Florida, and Canada.
FLORIDA
Brillhart Architecture
Miami
Known for: Prioritizing materials—and structure as the architecture—to redefine the relationship between the building and landscape, and to develop more natural environments for living.
Highlight: Expanding our footprint into Europe and other areas of the Caribbean.
Highlight: 2024 AIA Florida Award of Excellence—Durango Cabin. Two projects were featured in Thames and Hudson’s Off the Grid—Houses for Escape Across North America (by Dominic Bradbury).
Highlight: Squirrel Hill Residence, Pittsburgh.
Choeff Levy Fischman Architecture + Design
Miami and Tampa
Known for: Designing exclusive single-family residences for global entrepreneurs, C-suite executives, professional athletes, and sports team owners.
Highlight: 98 La Gorce on the bay on Miami Beach’s La Gorce Island where it recently sold for $63 million. The LEED-Gold residence was designed in the Tropical Modern style using an Asian theme.
Highlight: South Florida Business Journal’s Structures Award for Best Custom Single-Family Home.
In the works: A 20,000-square-foot residence for a major company CEO on the bay in Miami Beach. Another 20,000 square foot home on Miami Beach’s Star Island which features a 15-car garage to act as a museum for a car collection.
Khoury Vogt Architects
Seacrest
Known for: Style grounded in typological urban and architectural design that explores early 20th century influences.
Highlight: While Alys Beach’s Town Architects, KVA continues to work on architectural and urban design projects throughout Florida, the Southeast, and expanding beyond the United States.
Highlight: In 2024 KVA reaches the final stages of several anticipated projects, including Kaiya Beach house on the Gulf of Mexico and the Kaiya Strand duplexes and looks forward to expanding into several new markets.
Highlight: 2024 Barranco Award by the Urban Guild for Excellent Architectural Design Within the Context of Good Urbanism.
In the works: Early stages of a new project at the Ocean Reef Club, a private community in Key Largo.
Cronk Duch Architecture
Jacksonville
Known for: Traditional architecture with strong coastal and Anglo West Indies emphasis.
Highlight: New commissions in the 30A Corridor of the Panhandle to the Sarasota and Tampa Bay areas.
In the works: A commission on the Outer Banks of the Carolinas with a strong design presence in the Caribbean.
MHK Architecture
Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Colorado
Known for: An eclectic coastal, traditional, and contemporary style.
Highlight: Completing nearly 4,000 coastal houses from Key West through the Carolinas.
Highlight: Continually selected as Best of the Gulfshore Architects by Gulfshore Life and again named Best Architect for 2024.
Highlight: Creating Olde Naples through historical reference, and the Coastal Contemporary movement.
In the works: Homes in South Seas Resort, Captiva Island; Chub Cay Resort, Berry Islands, the Bahamas; and exclusive coastal homes throughout Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Phillip James Dodd
Palm Beach and Greenwich
Known for: Storytelling and Scholarship: Our designs are rooted in the history, theories, and practice of traditional regional architecture.
Highlight: Presenting the John G. Winslow Lecture from the great hall of The Breakers in Newport; Guest speaker at The University Club to celebrate the 125th anniversary of its Charles McKim designed clubhouse; and giving a series of talks onboard Cunard’s flagship The Queen Mary 2 as it sailed the North Atlantic towards New York City.
Highlight: The Addison Mizner Award for Excellence in Traditional and Classical Architecture for a Spanish Mediterranean-style house in Palm Beach.
Highlight: A gut-renovation and addition to a 1921 Colonial-Revival house designed by noted architect Paul R. Allen.
In the works: New houses in the Hudson Valley, and in Greenwich, Conn.
SDH Studio Architecture + Design
Miami Beach
Known for: Contemporary architecture with tropical modern elements to produce exquisite custom-built luxury homes.
Highlight: Projects throughout Florida and the Caribbean and partnering with internationally renowned architecture firms.
Highlight: In February, 95 West broke a longstanding sales record for a waterfront home in Bay Harbor Islands when it sold for $21.95 million.
Highlight: Best of Houzz for Design and Service.
Highlight: Best Architect in Miami by Expertise.com.
Highlight: Altos del Mar was particularly challenging due to its location in the historic Miami Beach district.
In the works: Four three-story oceanfront residences in Golden Beach, as well as multiple projects throughout Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, and Miami Beach.
STRANG Design
Miami
Known for: Site-driven and climate-driven design sensibilities, addressing sea-level rise, storm surges, and complex construction and permitting.
Highlight: Several new residences in Miami, Palm Beach, The Bahamas, and The Florida Keys. Construction is underway at the Panther National golf community in Palm Beach County, where Strang serves as the design architect for the residences and clubhouse. Additionally, designs for boutique hospitality projects are underway in Dubai, Utah, and Puerto Rico.
Highlight: Awards for ‘design excellence’ for the Wildwood Residence in Coconut Grove and the Angel Oaks Residence in Coral Gables.
Highlight: A recently completed new residence for former Formula 1 driver Eddie Irvine, in the Sunset Islands neighborhood of Miami Beach.
Studio Khora
Miami and Pompano Beach
Known for: Waterfront properties that reinterpret minimalist architecture, challenging and redefining the essence of space and form.
Highlight: The P House redefines modern architecture through a contemporary lens, emphasizing sustainability and innovative design.
Highlight: Featured among the top Miami architects by Florida Design Magazine, with a detailed profile set for its October 2024 edition.
Highlight: New Architectural Station in East Boothbay, Maine, in late summer 2024.
Highlight: Twelve distinguished AIA (American Institute of Architects) awards.
Highlight: Best Luxury Residential Architect Studio award at the Luxury Lifestyle Awards 2024.
GEORGIA
Harrison Design
Atlanta
Known for: Coastal residences that maximize the beauty, uniqueness, and potential of every location.
Highlight: Selected to design luxurious custom homes for an exclusive golf destination community in the Caribbean.
In the works: Residences in the Golden Isles, Siesta Key, Naples, Palm Beach, Malibu, and Santa Barbara.
Point Office
Atlanta
Known for: Warm modern architecture, often adapting vernacular styles, with integration of art and a purposeful connection to the landscape.
Highlight: AIA Awards in Georgia and North Carolina.
Highlight: Matsumoto Prize, North Carolina’s highest honor exclusively for modernist architecture.
In the Works: Coastal and mountain houses in North Carolina, and a public memorial in Atlanta.
Court Atkins Group
Savannah
Known for: Low-country vernacular designs.
Highlight: Multiple AIA HH Merit Awards.
Highlight: Multiple Lighthouse Awards from Architectural Digest.
Hawaii
de Reus Architects
Sun Valley and Kamuela
Known for: A craftsmanship approach to a process with habits and rituals. Our methods are the antithesis of large corporate architecture firms.
Highlight: A bespoke private surf club with residences in the East Cape of Cabo, Mexico.
Highlight: An idiosyncratic private ranch in Monterey County, California.
Highlight: In Maui, a home designed around a Zen Garden courtyard.
Highlight: The 80,000-square-foot Makena Golf and Beach Club started construction in Maui. Highlight: In Sun Valley, a new hotel, a ranch, and a private residential resort with geothermal.
MAINE
Winkelman Architecture
Portland
Known for: A synergistic link between the environment and a structure through stylistically diverse, fresh, and creative designs distinguished by a highly collaborative, craft-driven, and open-minded approach.
Highlight: 2024 Maine AIA Honor Award —A House In Three Parts.
Highlight: A traditional coastal cottage and outbuilding from a midcoast Maine family compound.
In the works: Rock House—compact luxury home perched on rocky peninsula in Biddeford, Maine, and breaking ground on a highly crafted, self-sufficient family compound in Downeast Maine.
MARYLAND
Kimmel Studio Architects
Annapolis
Known for: An artistic approach to architecture, with each design a unique work of art that embodies the desires and values of our clients, balancing modern aesthetics with a respect for tradition.
Highlight: Several large and luxurious waterfront modern homes, focusing on seamlessly integrating contemporary design with the natural surroundings.
Highlight: Additionally, we’re crafting a stylish high-end event barn, aiming to create a functional yet elegant space for special gatherings.
Highlight: Villa Duna, a Shingle-style home with a lake view.
Purple Cherry Architects
Annapolis, Md.; Charlottesville, Va.; Middleburg, Va.; New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.
Known for: Designs that create emotional connections to the surrounding environment, with a focus on view-oriented properties and multi-structure estates.
Highlight: New book, The Design of a Country Estate, released by Gibbs Smith in August 2024.
Highlight: Projects in the Hamptons, Florida, Massachusetts, DC, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, North Carolina, and Costa Rica.
Highlight: A modern waterfront home featured as the cover story in Ocean Home magazine.
Highlight: Editorial coverage in Architectural Digest, Veranda, and Modern Luxury.
MASSACHUSETTS
Patrick Ahearn Architect
Boston and Edgartown
Known for: Classic American architecture that balances the romance of traditional design with the ideals of modern living.
Highlight: Book tour for Patrick’s second book, History Reinterpreted, includes stops in Boston at the illustrious Athenaeum, in Newport at Rosecliff Manor, and on Cape Cod.
Highlight: Luxe RED Award and Best of the South Shore Award.
Highlight: Projects on Boston’s South Coast, in Oyster Harbors, on Martha’s Vineyard, and British Columbia.
In the works: Projects throughout New England, on Martha’s Vineyard, Long Island, in coastal Maine, and California.
ERT Architects
Cape Cod
Known for: Contemporary interpretation of classic seaside Shingle-style homes. While an ERT-designed home may incorporate significant elements of Principal Eric Tolley, it is the clients’ vision that is at the forefront of the firm’s design process.
Highlight: A waterfront home on an island just off the coast of Cape Cod.
Highlight: A 129-room independent living facility, and the conversion of an office building into 24 apartments.
Highlight: Two BRICCA Awards.
Highlight: In East Orleans, a house with a triple gambrel roofline that gives its exterior a distinctive Shingle-style look.
In the works: A 40-house subdivision in Duxbury later this year, several large waterfront houses, as well homes, additions, and renovations, and commercial projects throughout southeastern New England.
Hacin
Boston
Known for: A collaborative approach with an interdisciplinary team that collectively contributes to creating innovative work.
Highlight: Oyster Pond House, Chatham, received an IIDA New England award for residential interior design, and a Chatham Preservation award.
Highlight: Jackson Hole vacation home was recognized with an Architizer A+ Special Mention and Boston Society for Architecture award.
Highlight: An art-filled Hermosa Beach residence in California designed in collaboration with Laney LA completed and featured in Architectural Digest.
Highlight: Received Best of Boston and Best of Boston Home recognition as Best Contemporary Architect in 2024 for the second year in a row (and eleventh time overall).
Highlight: A 9,700-square-foot home on Cape Cod with Kistler Knapp Builders, the renovation of a 15,000-square-foot Buckhead residence in Atlanta, and a condominium in the newly opened Raffles building overlooking Boston harbor.
Hutker Architects
Vineyard Haven, Falmouth, Plymouth, and Boston
Known for: Design and construction that honor the vernacular traditions of craft and indigenous materials and are deeply respectful of the beauty of the landscape.
Highlight: Their latest book, New England Coastal, Homes That Tell A Story.
Highlight: Modern Luxury Interiors, Best of Luxury Design, Architecture Firm of the Year 2024; Best of Boston 2024; Best Coastal Architect.
Highlight: The Ruins, Cape Cod. Designed to connect seamlessly with the outdoors, four gabled volumes are connected by a flat-roofed circulation corridor comprise the main house. Oversized windows and doors encourage frequent enjoyment of the home’s meadow setting and evening sky.
LDa Architecture & Interiors
Boston and Cape Cod
Known for: LDa finds inspiration in the power of place for each of its coastal projects, with each site revealing a unique narrative.
Highlight: LDa sponsored a scholarship for two young up-and-coming designers to attend the Luxury Home Design Summit in Chatham in May 2024.
Highlight: “Best One-Stop-Shop” from Modern Luxury Interiors Boston, and also BRAGB Prism award Gold Winner.
In the works: Began the design of a new family retreat on Lake Winnipesaukee, NH; Completed a new modern vacation cottage in Orleans; renovated homes in Edgartown, Centerville, and Mattapoisett, Massachusetts.
Morehouse MacDonald and Associates
Lexington
Known for: Designs tailored to the clients’ needs, dreams, location and context, with Shingle-Style architecture playing a role in many projects.
Highlight: Two new coastal projects on Nevis in the West Indies, a renovation in Gloucester, a new Shingle-style home in Rhode Island, a theatre restoration in Norwalk, a renovation in Stowe, and an Arts and Crafts renovation in Concord.
Highlight: PRISM Award for Best Home over 6,000 square feet and a 2024 winner for “Best Destination Architect” in Modern Luxury’s “Best in Luxury Design” issue.
Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders
Cape Cod
Known for: Fully integrated architecture and construction, creating custom homes that represent a broad range of aesthetics and scales, and that celebrate creative design and quality craftsmanship.
Highlights: 2023 Distinguished Service to Philanthropy Award as the Outstanding Business. The publication of the firm’s fourth book, The Art of Creating Houses, which features 27 recent projects. Multiple 2023 PRISM Awards and 2023 BRICC Awards for both architectural design and construction.
Nicholaeff Architecture + Design
Osterville
Known for: Combining location-specific modern and classical architecture while abstracting clients’ wishes and aesthetic sensibilities.
Highlight: Major renovation that required lifting the existing frame of a house, reconfiguring interior/exterior while working with footprint, flood plain and conservation.
In the works: A family home in Maine and a golfer’s dream house.
SV Design
Beverly, Chatham, Winchester
Known for: Designing spaces of beauty and integrity that are timeless in style, highly functional, and thoughtfully placed in the landscape.
Highlight: The addition of three new partners to the firm—Stefano Basso, Jen Hocherman, and Paul Muldoon (January 2024).
Highlight: Opening a third office in Winchester (in addition to Beverly and Chatham).
Highlight: Modern Luxury Interiors: Best of Luxury Design ‘Best Coastal Architect’; BRAGB (Builders and Remodelers Association of Greater Boston); Silver PRISM Award for Best Home Renovation, Marblehead; HBRACC (Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod); Gold BRICC Award for Outstanding Use of Local Art / Artisan Talent; HBRACC (Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Cape Cod); Gold BRICC Award for Excellence in Whole House Remodeling, Cape Cod; Northshore Home: BONS (Best of North Shore) Awards for Architecture (Coastal & Contemporary) and Interior Design (Contemporary).
In the works: Custom homes on the coasts of Beverly, Marblehead, Swampscott, Gloucester, Chatham, Woods Hole. and Rhode Island.
NEW YORK
Alexander Gorlin Architects
New York
Known for: Modern design that complements and enhances the experience of a site, characterized by clean lines and natural materials, with extensive use of abundant light.
Highlight: House on Sanibel Island on the Gulf of Mexico, on Golden Beach, Fla.
Highlight: Renovation of the Admiral’s House, Governor’s Island, New York Harbor.
Highlight: American Institute of Architecture’s Housing Award, 2024, NYSAFAH Project of the Year Award (New York State Association for Affordable Housing).
Highlight: El Borinquen, affordable housing in the Bronx.
In the works: Housing on the Hudson River in Hudson, New York; Apartment on East River, New York; Train Station, Hammond, Indiana; Mixed use residential-retail in Elkhart, Indiana.
Andre Kikoski Architect
New York
Known for: The idea that architecture should be transformational—a definitive tool to advance communities and culture to make our world a better place for all.
Highlight: 2024 Rethinking the Future Award: Category: First Award Industrial (Concept).
Highlight: An oceanfront estate in the Hamptons, bespoke interiors for a Miami apartment at 57 Ocean, and the New York City headquarters for an international financial PR firm.
Bates Masi + Architects
East Hampton
Known for: The quality of craft and combination of materials in modern structures, while referencing historic roots.
Highlight: The firm’s second monograph, Architecture of Place, is available now. Working with a new fabrication company to streamline the construction process and approach building technologies in new ways.
Highlight: 2024 AIA Peconic Honor Award and 2024 Tucker Stone Design Award.
Highlight: Four projects each with its own set of challenges, from environmental factors, geographic location on a remote island, and flood-prone sites.
Ferguson & Shamamian
New York
Known for: An architecture firm well-versed in the eclectic language of residential interiors and harmonizing the old with the new.
Highlight: 2024 Addison Mizner Award for Excellence in Classical and Traditional Architecture.
Highlight: A McKim, Mead & White Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.
Peter Pennoyer Architects
New York and Miami
Known for: Sophisticated detail, high-quality craftsmanship, and a thoughtful balance between comfort, beauty, modernity and continuity with the past.
Highlight: Renovation of Guild Hall, a historic theater in East Hampton designed by Aymar Embury II in 1931.
Highlight: Peter was honored as the 2024 recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize.
Highlight: The new pool folly at a historic house on the Northeast Coast, recently renovated.
In the works: In the Middle East, a 40-acre, state-of-the-art sustainable agricultural facility that will produce food with cutting-edge research, climate-resilient strategies, and alternative modes of production. In Connecticut, transforming an original conservatory greenhouse—which is located on one of Andrew Carnegie’s former summer estates —into a family residence.
Leroy Street Studio
New York
Known for: Emphasizing craft in construction and a collaborative design process.
Highlight: Oceanside retreat received a SARA National Honor Award.
Highlight: Park Slope Townhouse featured in Architectural Digest and The Local Project.
Highlight: Hester Street, a nonprofit founded by LSS, celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Highlight: Alley Pond Environmental Center in Queens opened to the public.
In the works: A new waterfront condo development and a mass-timber townhouse renovation, both in Manhattan’s West Village.
Kligerman Architecture & Design
New York
Known for: Distinctive design that’s rooted in tradition but modern in its sculptural forms, taut detailing, glass expanses, and often a touch of whimsy.
Highlight: Joined the newly founded Gold Collective, designed a window for La Cienega Design Quarterly with Mehraban Rugs, and participated on design panels across the country.
Highlight: Elle Décor A List; LUXE Red Award for Wow Factor Room.
In the works: Projects in Canada, Dallas, Houston, California, Oregon, The Bahamas, The Hamptons, Coastal Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Beach homes in Southampton and coastal New England, an apartment with views of the Gulf on Longboat Key and lake house in Connecticut.
Martin Architects
Sagaponack
Known for: Creating dynamic and sustainable designs working within the site, client and scope and environment.
Highlight: Published in the architectural book New View.
Highlight: Several projects this year, each unique and on the Atlantic or Gardiners Bay.
Highlight: A first AIA Peconic winner Award for our Gwathmey Legacy project; a Presidents AIA Long Island award for Atlantic Beach.
Highlight: Work featured in The New York Times, Dwell, and Architectural Digest.
Highlight: Daniels Lane, merging modern design with traditional elements to create a unique and timeless space.
Highlight: Reflecting diverse capabilities and dedication to exceptional design.
In the works: A cliffside island project, a lakeside project in the Tri-State area, and one starting in the Dominican Republic. These projects will reflect a dedication to architectural excellence and environmental consciousness.
Sawyer / Berson
New York
Known for: New homes, townhouses, apartments, interiors, landscapes, and gardens in a wide variety of styles spanning traditional and modern, informed by history and context and developed in close collaboration with clients and design teams.
Highlight: The AD100 2024
Highlight: Year-long book tour by founding partners, architectural designer and landscape architect Brian Sawyer and architect John Berson, Sawyer|Berson: Houses and Landscapes.
Highlight: A new residence in Paget, Bermuda.
Highlight: A residence on Allison Island, Miami, Florida.
Highlight: Residence in Southampton, New York.
Highlight: 2023 McKim, Mead & White Award in Commercial, Civic, and Institutional Architecture for a new ballroom for the Pierre Hotel.
Highlight: Residence in Water Mill, New York.
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
New York
Known for: A scholarly approach to design and architecture to produce sophisticated, stylistically diverse houses that capture the spirit of place and support contemporary ways of living.
Highlight: Two new partners, Bina Bhattacharyya and Kevin Kelly, joined the Houses Division’s Randy Correll, Grant Marani, and Roger Seifter.
Highlight: 2024 Palladio Award for Guest House and Cabin in New England.
Highlight: 2024 Luxe Red Award for Interior Architecture for Guest House on the Southern California Coast.
In the works: RAMSA is designing homes from Southern California to Greenwich, CT, the Hamptons, Palm Beach, FL, and the coast of Turkey.
TenBerke
New York
Known for: Deeply rooted, place-specific modern houses that enrich and elevate everyday life with timeless designs that are at once warm and elegant.
Highlight: Released a toolkit for residential projects that considers ways to reduce carbon emissions in the design of houses, dipping below zero net carbon, and taking on a regenerative stance.
Highlight: AD100 Hall of Fame, Elle Décor A-List Titan, JUST Certification, New Canaan Pavilion: The American Architecture Award from The Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design, Two AIA National Design Awards.
In the works: The reimagination of an 1884 East Hampton boarding house as a single-family home; homes in Eastern Long Island and Coastal Connecticut; a multifamily, mixed use development in Columbus, Indiana.
Workshop/APD
New York
Known for: A luxurious, crafted modern approach, defined by place and purpose.
Highlight: 2024 marks the firm’s 25th anniversary and growth from two to 100 people.
Highlight: First year in the New York Kips Bay Show House.
Highlight: Top 100 Interior Design Giants 2024, Hospitality Giants 2024, Elle Décor’s A-List, 1stDibs 50, Luxe RED Award, NYC x Design Award.
OREGON
Daniel Toole Architecture
Portland
Known for: Contemporary, crafted, private and public buildings with careful attention to detail. We place importance on sculpting light and materials to create unexpected spaces for contemplation.
Highlight: Homes in coastal to desert landscapes in Oregon, Washington, and California. Multiple mixed-use multifamily buildings under construction and in permitting.
Highlight: AIA National Small Projects, AIA Oregon Citation.
Highlight: Madrona House and Jade Alley.
PENNSYLVANIA
Asher Slaunwhite + Partners
Philadelphia
Known for: Timeless designs that are not limited to a specific style or feature but are based on balance, composition and surroundings.
Highlight: Heirloom homes in the most exclusive towns up and down the New Jersey Coast.
Highlight: Expertise in designing homes situated within delicate, strictly regulated environmental settings.
Highlight: A modern 8,000-square-foot retreat nestled in the exclusive and private High Dunes section of Avalon, New Jersey.
In the works: Estate homes underway in Haddonfield and on the Main Line in Pennsylvania.
RHODE ISLAND
Andreozzi Architecture
Barrington
Known for: A new traditional architecture, respectful of history and its local context, but completely modern in plan and technologies.
Highlight: Named one of the Top 50 Traditional Architects in the World.
Highlight: David Andreozzi is on the Board of Directors of the Lutyens Trust America and the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art New England.
Highlight: A summer home that started with a land search over 12 years ago is finally being completed and photographed.
In the works: Homes in Rhode Island: Shelter Harbor, Watch Hill, Narragansett, Jamestown, Newport, Providence, Barrington, Bristol, & Warwick. Also, Westport, Brooklyn, and Florida.
TEXAS
Michael G. Imber Architects
San Antonio
Known for: Architecture with historical and cultural significance, connecting local building traditions to place and our modern lifestyles. A focus on craft and materials and the aesthetics of detail to create structures that are timeless, lasting and real.
Highlight: Projects in California, Ohio, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Costa Rica, Washington DC, Delaware, Arkansas, and Texas.
Highlight: AIA Residential Design Award for Rancho Sabino Grande residence, 2024 Palladio Award (Number 8 for the firm) for our Moosehead Lake residence.
In the works: An historic hilltop estate in Montecito, CA, and continued progress on construction of the Alys Beach Town Center.
WASHINGTON
Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Wilkes-Barre
Known for: Designing to the nature of each circumstance, resulting in architecture that inspires connection and wonder.
Highlight: Residential Architect Design Award from Architect magazine and RDAA Honor Award from Residential Design magazine.
Highlight: A mass timber building for an independent school near Dallas.
Highlight: A center for data science and AI for the University of Florida.
In the Works: New residences in the San Juan Islands, British Columbia, Hawaii, San Francisco, New York, and Block Island.
Olson Kundig Architects
Seattle
Known for: Work that responds to and expands the context of built and natural landscapes.
Highlight: A new office in Chicago.
Highlight: Publication of New Heights: Transforming Seattle’s Iconic Space Needle.
Highlight: Jim Olson and Tom Kundig honored with FCARM Medal at the AIA International Congress in Mexico City.
Highlight: Private Residences in Telluride.
Highlight: AIA Architecture Award: Wagner Education Center at the Center for Wooden Boats. AIA Small.
Project Award: Leach Botanical Garden, AIA Seattle Honor Award: 800 Fifth Avenue Repositioning, American Architecture. Architectural Digest AD100 list.
In the works: Private and multifamily residential, hospitality, cultural and museum projects, and sports facilities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos.
Cutler Anderson Architects
Bainbridge Island
Known for: Designs based on a sensitivity to the institution, the place and the materials; spending time to understand the sense of place and reflect its essence and spirit through site and building design.
Highlight: Nearing completion of a $100 million wellness resort in North Carolina.
Highlight: A family vacation home on Puget Sound in Washington State in a very dense wooded site. Care was taken to tuck the house between several of the existing tall evergreen trees and orient the view so the occupants would have a view of the water on a diagonal rather than straight across the inlet at the neighbors. This allowed much more privacy for the occupants.
In the works: A waterfront guest house in a remote area of British Columbia and a small waterfront home on Puget Sound which looks north across the Straits of Juan de Fuca to British Columbia. Another vacation home on the southwestern coast of Washington State across from the Columbia River to Oregon.
GO’C
Seattle
Known for: Producing sustainable projects that work closely with the land, are built to last for generations and with a process that’s as rigorous as it is daring.
Highlight: GO’C recently completed and photographed a new houseboat on Lake Union in Seattle called Blatto Boat.
Highlight: A special project on Orcas Island called iolair, for a foundation dedicated to bringing artists from around the world to live, create, and share their work with the local community.
Highlight: Moved into a new office space in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, adjacent to the new Alaskan Way waterfront development.
Highlight: 2024 Residential Design Awards—Honor Award, 2024 Residential Design Awards—Citation Award, 2023 AIA Seattle Honor Award.
In the works: A singular cabin with multiple campsites, at the north edge of Olympic National Park Lookout over the Salish Sea; a new residence outside of Walla Walla, Wash. with panoramic views of Oregon’s Blue Mountains.
Heliotrope Architects
Seattle
Known for: Smart, contemporary buildings that transcend style and trend. We are signatories to the 2030 challenge and take pride in designing heirloom works of architecture that are environmentally aware and built to last.
Highlight: In addition to a dozen homes in the San Juan Archipelago, work in southern California, South Carolina, and New Zealand.
Highlight: The Fauntleroy residence received a Luxe Red Award.
Highlight: Two projects were featured in the New York Times including Loyal Captain, a residence in Seattle, and Heliotrope principal Joe Herrin’s summer beach cabin on Orcas Island.
Highlight: Recently completed tasting room for Archery Summit, and two new waterfront residences in the San Juan Islands and a home in southwest Washington near the Columbia River.
THE CARIBBEAN
John Doak Architecture
Grand Cayman
Known for: Residential designs which reflect an understanding and respect for building in the Caribbean.
Highlight: In 2024 John Doak celebrated 45 years practicing architecture in the Cayman Islands and the Caribbean.
Highlight: John Doak’s drawings of traditional “Cayman Style” homes and his work in the preservation of Cayman’s traditions were celebrated this year in an exhibition at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.
Highlight: Trend towards minimal modern styling over the last five years.
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