2014 CTC&G Innovation in Design Winners: Architecture
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Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
Works by Günther Förg and openly inspired by Le Corbusier face off against a wall of windows, the shape and color of the blinds reiterating the wooden slats found throughout the structure. A glass railing practically protects and conceptually blends with the rest of the house.
Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
Works by Günther Förg and openly inspired by Le Corbusier face off against a wall of windows, the shape and color of the blinds reiterating the wooden slats found throughout the structure. A glass railing practically protects and conceptually blends with the rest of the house.
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Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
The back of the house, entirely re-skinned and opened up to the water, glows like an ethereal jewel box. Black-stained wood provides a counterpoint to the airy
white interiors.
Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
The back of the house, entirely re-skinned and opened up to the water, glows like an ethereal jewel box. Black-stained wood provides a counterpoint to the airy
white interiors.
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Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
Inside Out Wooden slats and Kettal seating are in conversation with both the landscape and the stained-black shingle siding.
Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
Inside Out Wooden slats and Kettal seating are in conversation with both the landscape and the stained-black shingle siding.
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Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
The master bathroom is encased in glass, mirroring the house’s overall aesthetic.
Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
The master bathroom is encased in glass, mirroring the house’s overall aesthetic.
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Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
The house before renovations.
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Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
The dining room’s angular furnishings—Hudson NYC table and chairs and a Holly Hunt light fixture—lead the eye through a symmetrically placed open terrace and out over the water.
Photography by David Sundeberg at Esto
The dining room’s angular furnishings—Hudson NYC table and chairs and a Holly Hunt light fixture—lead the eye through a symmetrically placed open terrace and out over the water.
Winner: Joeb More + Partners, LLC
“I’m interested in this expanded field between architecture, landscape and art,” architect Joeb Moore says about this newly created glowing jewel box of a waterfront house, which he and his collaborators re-thought, re-encased and—with a few seemingly simple moves—completely transformed.
Central to the project is the fact and idea of landscape, and of the permeability of constructed boundaries between inside and outside: a topic that has engaged and infuriated homeowners, architects and landscape designers ever since the first bit of bearskin was hung over a prehistoric cave entrance. Here, Moore sees it most in the way the house moves from a front entrance framed with a wood fence and courtyard trees to a bright open glass-walled interior, and then to a series of steps down through artificial water (the swimming pool) to less artificial water (the overflow from the swimming pool) to natural water (the harbor). Buttressing that sectional and almost processional clarity are what Moore calls the liminal spaces. These include a series of covered outdoor spaces—such as the one just off the living room, separated from the landscape with a series of wood slat panes—or the way in which that slat pattern is repeated on the second-story art-covered hallway’s blinds.
The footprint of this originally traditional house stayed exactly the same, which makes Moore’s—and landscape architect Edmund Hollander and interior designer Sally Markham’s—interventions (replacing swaths of wood with glass; staining the siding black; inserting a central resin-coated block that operates as the conceptual nerve center of the house) all the more striking and expansive.
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