Reese Owens Architects

New England Home – Summer 2019

2019 AIA Connecticut Alice Washburn Awards – Additions/Renovations

Jury comments: “We were all impressed by the beautifully designed and executed extension of the existing house. The addition was added in a really seamless way, such that it was difficult to tell where the existing house ended, and the addition started. The materials of the addition also seemed to be matched with great care and craftsmanship to the existing. We loved that they retained and incorporated the end wall of the existing house into the interiors of the new kitchen.”

2018 CTC&G Innovation in Design Awards
Connecticut Cottages & Gardens

2018 CTC&G Innovation in Design Awards
Connecticut Cottages & Gardens

Connecticut Cottages & Gardens – March 2017

Connecticut Magazine – July 2016

2016 The Alice Washburn House Award
AIA Connecticut & Connecticut Magazine

Jury comments: The jury liked the scale of the project. Both interior and exterior were the most resolved of the projects it looked at. The jury appreciated its smaller foot print, its delicate proportions, and its engagement with the site. The floor plan was clearly presented. Made up of traditional components knitted together in a non-traditional way, this project will stand up over time, aging well.

2016 The Alice Washburn Accessory Building Award
AIA Connecticut & Connecticut Magazine

Jury comments: This project is a clean fit in its category. It relates well to the main house; its planning is successful, with distinct, public and private entries on the sides. It is impeccably presented. All elements are nicely proportioned.

2016 CTC&G Innovation in Design Awards
Connecticut Cottages & Gardens

2016 CTC&G Innovation in Design Awards
Connecticut Cottages & Gardens

Galerie Magazine No.1 – April 2016

Architectural Digest – Posted March 2, 2016

Connecticut Cottages & Gardens – July/August 2015

2015 CTC&G Innovation in Design Awards
Connecticut Cottages & Gardens

Jury comments: The cottage by Reese Owens Architects imbued precisely the wonderful qualities of many of the winners: The design is timeless and the detailing and execution incredibly thoughtful. It speaks of and to the beautiful New England landscape, effortlessly expressing what it means to be in Connecticut.

New England Home Magazine – Winter 2015

By Rhonda Eleish & Edie van Breems
“Romance on Duck Pond”

New England Home Magazine – Connecticut Spring 2013

2013 Connecticut Preservation Awards
CT Trust for Historic Preservation

2012 AIA Connecticut Design Awards

Quintessence – September 19, 2012

By Susanna Salk
“Modern Cabin”

Connecticut Cottages & Gardens – March 2012

New England Home Magazine – Connecticut Fall 2011

Luxury Home Quarterly – May 2011

2009 AIA New England Design Awards

Jury comments: The sheer airiness and lofty spatiality of this complex building make for a wonderful family place, both inside
and out. This is made possible by two strong gestures:
1 …the architects have created an interesting integration of rusticity and modernity… especially in the strong clarity and openness of the kitchen and related spaces, in the tamed brutality of the fireplaces, in the contrast between the bright stairwell and the weathered timbers.
2 …all aspects of site planning… approach, plain character, location of courtyard and pool….the architects have made a serene landscape. The facades shift from quiet planarity at North and East to a complex west side worthy of a multi-story Athonite monastery… this same façade presents an almost classical, formal elegance.

Litchfield Magazine – September/October 2009

2008 AIA Connecticut Design Award

Jury comments: The jury liked the fact that the architect saved the fabric of the existing barn by moving the barn. This was a good job of integration. The jury loved the modern use of traditional materials, especially in the fireplace. It loved the co-existence of the old and the new in a very successful meeting of modern and traditional vocabularies.

The Litchfield County Times Monthly – December 2008

Town & Country Magazine – January 2007

Interior Design Magazine – October 2006

Vogue Magazine – October 2006

Luxury SpaFinder Magazine – September/ October 2006

New York Magazine – June 12, 2006

Wood Design & Building – Summer 2004

2004 AIA Connecticut Alice Washburn Award

Jury comments: An excellent presentation. Massing was nicely dealt with. There is a good plan,
given the site. The building is sympathetic to its surroundings: detailing is very nice.

2003 AIA Connecticut Design Award

Jury Comments: A very nice guest house. It sits delicately on its site almost like a classical pavilion sitting in a garden park, away from the main house. The jury loved its diagram and the clarity and transparency of forms that were like landscape elements.

New Milford Historical Society

Architectural Record – House of the Month – 2003

2002 AIA Connecticut Design Award

Jury Comments: A wonderful historical restoration project with very careful attention to detail. Its drawings are exquisite.

Avenue Country – 2000 Vol. 24 No. 11

1998 AIA Connecticut Design Award

Jury comments: This is a beautifully restrained, sensitively detailed building in a rural vernacular. It juxtaposes two outbuildings with the qualities and virtues of outbuildings, such as barn framing, mostly flush wood cladding, and the major use of stone. There is clever, sensitive detailing: the utilization of the extended roof to create the porch and the expression of the major timber structure. It is not overpowering but modest, a beautifully proportioned piece. The play barn is very nice. The plans are taut and clean. It is a real joy to find this breath of fresh air, with its understanding of the vernacular as opposed to the high style.

1998 AIA Connecticut Design Award

Jury comments: This is a clean, modern, rational solution effectively connected to an existing structure. The jury admired details such as the steel columns, the treatment of a wall, the relationship of one wall to another, and its early modern fenestration. The light seems effective.

The New York Times – December 15, 1996

1992 CSA/AIA Design Award

Jury comments: The addition ingeniously accommodates very complex circulation requirements, providing a wonderful place to work that is full of light and space.

1992 CSA/AIA Design Award

Jury comments: This gallery space addition quietly blends into the landscape while the natural materials of the existing house interweave in a unique way throughout the new structure.

1992 CSA/AIA Design Award

Jury comments: The promise of the exquisite drawings is fulfilled in the execution of this masterfully controlled design, based on the infamous nine square grid. The gym is completely open and transparent to the exterior.