Connecticut Countryside
Wes Maxwell
AIA Connecticut Design Award
Description
House and barn
Site
Countryside
Design
Lantern House is a modern interpretation of the New England vernacular: taut, simple forms with pitched metal roofs and white-painted flush board siding. The glassy, lantern-like entry, with its prow-shaped canopy, leads to an open, expansive space within.
North Shore, along the coast
An addition and renovation breathes new life into an 18th c. house we call Eight Gables. The project is sited on an extraordinary salt-water marsh on the north coast of Massachusetts. It consists of a colonial era house, a barn…
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Catskills, New York
Over half the interior of the tiny house is a great lodge hall, extending to the full height of the roof and centered on a massive stone fireplace. Tree trunk porch columns give the entry façade something of the aspect of a primitive shrine.
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Maine
Coast Cottage captures the spirit of old summer houses on the Maine coast, at the same time rugged but refined, understated but well-appointed.
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Maine Island
The first floor functions as a living room in the summer with French doors that open to the view. At the end of the season, the furniture is moved aside to make room for the pick-up truck. Lanterns suspended from the points of the roof are standard mooring balls fitted with light bulbs inside.
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