US firm Bates Masi Architects has lifted this New York home above the ground and added lower-level screens to let water pass underneath, helping ensure that "flooding becomes a non-threatening event". More about Bates Masi designs Kiht'han house on Long Island to endure periodic flooding
Bates Masi Architects has used sliding doors, decks and balconies to open up this slatted wooden home in Annapolis, Maryland to the nearby water. More about Bates Masi designs slatted wooden home for sailing family on Annapolis waterfront
Terraced volumes wrapped in stone and wood form a weekend dwelling by Bates Masi Architects on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island. More about Swimming pool tops Hither Hills holiday home in Long Island by Bates Masi Architects
American firm Bates Masi Architects took cues from vernacular architecture for this Hamptons home, which consists of sharply gabled forms wrapped in oversized shingles. More about Bates Masi's Georgica Cove residence in East Hampton is modelled after historic farmsteads
Tasked with creating a spacious family home on a former Quaker settlement, Bates Masi Architects has built a house that celebrates simple forms and materials. More about Bates Masi Architects builds Long Island house that celebrates local Quaker heritage
American firm Bates Masi + Architects took cues from a historic lifeguard station while designing this cedar-clad dwelling on Long Island, New York. More about Hamptons home by Bates Masi features cantilevering upper floor
This house in Amagansett, New York, by Bates Masi Architects is designed to take advantage of its windy site on Long Island's south shore (+ slideshow). More about Amagansett Dunes House by Bates Masi Architects is shaded with strips of canvas
New York studio Bates Masi Architects added sprung cedar boards that can be acoustically "tuned" to this house in The Hamptons, so residents can have noisy parties without disturbing their neighbours (+ slideshow). More about Long Island house by Bates Masi Architects has adjustable sound barriers for walls
Bates Masi Architects reference Long Island's traditional potato barns with this cedar-shingled home made up of several gabled blocks, which feature chimneys nestled into rooftop recesses (+ slideshow). More about Shingle-clad house by Bates Masi Architects mimics Long Island potato barns
This timber-clad beach house in Long Island was designed by New York studio Bates Masi with an angular form that funnels outwards to maximise living space on a restricted site (+ slideshow). More about Bates Masi completes timber-clad Hamptons retreat beside the beach