Long Island Meadow House — A coastal home for gathering

Long Island, NY
2025
Type: Houses

Set between grassy meadows and the seaside, this home offers a meditative place for gathering with friends and family. A gracious approach from the street curves through crabapple orchards up to the house. Two stone-clad volumes appear to slide past each other, resting gently on the landscape. Reaching out to the east and the west, the wings create pockets of naturalistic environments on the site: a clover meadow, a kitchen garden, an indoor-outdoor family room, a crape myrtle backyard grove, and paths to the beach through the tall fields.

The design of this house is about balance—between indoors and outdoors, between lightness and solidity, between the meadow and the beach.
Noah Biklen, Senior Principal

There is nothing quite like the light in eastern Long Island, and we found ourselves focusing on how the light would fall on a few simple elegant materials—stone, wood, plaster—throughout a day and through the seasons.
Deborah Berke, Founding Principal