NEW YORK CITY TOWNHOUSE EXPERTS
Country Houses and Estates
Zivkovic Connolly Architects designs and renovates country and suburban houses, estates, and rural residential environments throughout the greater New York region and beyond. Our work includes new houses, additions, estate and landscape renovations, historic restorations, pool houses, guest and other accessory buildings, and the master planning of gardens and surrounding landscapes.
Each home and its broader residential compound are developed in response to the particular setting. Views, topography, sunlight, approach, existing trees, gardens, and patterns of indoor-outdoor living help determine the organization and character of the architecture. The result may be traditional or contemporary, but it is always grounded in the qualities of the site and the way in which its owners wish to live.
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Measure is all.
Country house design requires the building and landscape to be considered as a complete environmental composition that creates a strong sense of place. The careful placement of rooms, terraces, courtyards, garden walls, pools, paths, and outbuildings establishes a sequence of spaces that extends the experience of the house into its surroundings.
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Our projects balance gracious living spaces with practical planning, durable materials, energy-efficient systems, and careful construction detailing that help protect the value of the owners’ long-term investment. Whether restoring a historic estate or designing a new residence from the ground up, we seek to create architecture, indoors and out, that feels settled in its landscape and becomes more meaningful over time.