The original house was claimed by Hurricane Sandy. After years of legal proceedings, the owner earned the right to rebuild in the same footprint. Barnes Coy Architects designed it. We built what was drawn.

At twelve feet off the ground on concrete pilings with structural steel into the earth, the house is built to endure. During construction, an October storm sent the ocean beneath the structure. It survived. When the storm passed, we rebuilt the dune — trucking in sand, restoring beach grass, reconstructing the land that holds the property in place. That dune has held for over a decade. This was only our second modern home. Nothing about it was simple — a cylindrical volume merging with a rectilinear form, curtain wall glass, a plunge pool at the dune line, and continuous DEC oversight throughout. It set a new benchmark for the work that followed.