For a young family’s home in a New York suburb, Bates Masi + Architects conceived a series of modest gabled structures, each focused inward onto its own garden courtyard.
“I want this house,” declares judge Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz.
Judge Ally Coulter admires how “its simplicity and harmony with nature is flawlessly achieved.”
The architects used movable wall partitions made of steel and glass to divide an East 59th Street penthouse into three distinct areas, providing the clients with a flexible space for both formal entertaining and daily life.
All the judges took note of the macassar ebony used throughout, which Noriega-Ortiz says “unifies the spaces” and Coulter praises for its “sleekness and glamour.”
“The articulation of the volumes makes the huge space feel intimate,” Noriega-Ortiz says of this 6,100-square-foot Colonial in Rye, which features classic curved roofs, projecting bays, and a long viewing porch. Judge Ellie Cullman characterizes the home as “a very credible redux of shingle-style architecture.”
Designed to recall a 150-year-old barn–cum–carriage house, this new stone-and-timber construction contains the owner’s collection of cars—all of which can be viewed from a steel catwalk. Brick flooring and oak beams continue into the attached wing, which houses a library, a sitting area, and a bar. Cullman praises its “nod to the past with all the amenities of the present.”
Janson Goldstein’s minimalist guesthouse for a residence in Hudson stands like a sculpture in the middle of a meadow. A covered breezeway divides the structure into two sides: one with living and sleeping areas for guests, and the other with a gym for all to use. Noriega-Ortiz admires the “controlled proportions” and “gradations from solid to translucent to transparent.”