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Montauk is the easternmost place on Long Island, an area
with fewer than 4,000 residents located over 100 miles from
Manhattan and its two-million inhabitants. Its remoteness
and natural beauty have made Montauk one of the most popular
warm-weather Hampton destinations, in many cases for the rich
who can afford a second house on beachfront property. One
such example is a main house and guest house designed by Pentagram
Architects overlooking the Atlantic Ocean near Hither
Hills State Park.
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Not surprisingly the main house,
a recipient of a 2006
AIANYS Design Award, predates the guest house, a 2009
AIANYS Design Award recipient. The access drive leads
to the newer guest house which sits to the west
of the main house. Each gestures towards the beach and
the ocean to the south, the guest house with its linear plan
and the main house with the openness of the living areas and
the adjacent outdoor areas. Together they create a private
courtyard of sorts, a manicured yard whose vista to the water
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According to the architects,
the two houses are unique yet "share a vocabulary of
materials, forms and intentions." The raised bar of the
guest house counters the earthbound L-shaped wings of the
main house. Within the latter
a solid "L" counters the glassy, rotated twin, reflecting
the dynamic of the couple who live there. The design embodies
mid-20th-century modernism skillfully executed in steel,
glass, wood, stone and brick. The most successful spaces
veer from the formal simplicity: the writer's
studio projecting above the roof and the home theater,
the latter a blend of Radio City Music Hall inspiration and
Stanley Kubrick. |
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Easily the guest
house is the more striking of the two houses, and not
only for its elevated composition. Modeled on a motel's outboard
circulation, the courtyard side is a colorful elevation punctuated
by perforated guardrails.
The opposite facade uses wood louvers for privacy, angled
for unimpeded views of the Atlantic. Together these two houses
illustrate the success of the owners (a writer and film producer)
as well as the appeal of the location, removed from the Big
City but right on the Big Ocean.
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