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How to Choose a Waterfront Architect For Your New Build A great architect will guide you through the discovery process by sharing previous projects that help tease out your own unique style and taste.  Imagine the luxury of waking up every morning to waterfront views and opening the windows to a cool coastal breeze in…

Turkey Hill Project Wins Outstanding Custom Home 6,000-7,000 SF at 2022 HOBI Awards The team at Christopher Pagliaro Architects recently attended the 2022 HOBI Awards hosted by the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Connecticut and is pleased to announce that our recently-completed modern home in Westport, titled Turkey Hill, won Outstanding Custom Home 6,000-7,000…

What to Expect When Working with Christopher Pagliaro Architects Your job is to create the problem, mine is to resolve it for you. We’re going to be frank with you. When working with Chris to design a home completely tailored to your lifestyle, it’s not a hurried process–because it’s not a process that we take…

The Before/After Story of An Award-Winning Historical Restoration You can responsibly preserve the beauty and historical significance of 19th-century structures without removing their integrity; their original spark. Historical restorations are very near and dear to our hearts at Christopher Pagliaro Architects.   New England has an old and rich history, and the architecture of still-standing…

Fluidity in Waterfront Architecture Round shapes are very conducive to the environment; to the softness of a panoramic view or landscape. You often hear us talk about how an architectural design should be an expression of the surrounding landscape. This is why you’ll see a lot of roundness and curvatures in our waterfront architecture, as…

The Delights of a Custom Build: Making a Home Your Own Architects are trained to materialize your grand visions for a home into a reality. From the big-picture layout to the individual details, a custom build is intentionally designed to suit the wants and needs of the homeowner.    Custom builds are a blank slate;…

Light, Design, and the Natural Environment: How Waterfront Architecture Deals With the Bigger Picture Combining design, functionality, and purpose to create harmony in the word home. Architecture is more than a technical process. There’s a technical aspect to it, sure, but the art of architecture is ultimately about seeing the bigger picture. It’s the art…

The Art of the View: It’s More than the Location of a Window It is nature’s gift and our responsibility to marry our buildings into it. Architects who are tasked with designing structures on properties with a view–misty mountaintops, glittering coastlines, languid coves–have a unique and principal responsibility to place this view at the top…

Sensations of the Sound: Why Building on the Connecticut Waterfront is an Act of Remembering Building on the water, in the summer, it’s not just about the house. Christopher Pagliaro’s childhood summers on the Sound are remembered through sensory experiences: the smell of summer blooms that peppered manicured gardens; the feeling of water colliding against…

Project Spotlight: Pratt Island Architectural rules are meant to be challenged. When you’re searching for inspiration, sometimes all you have to do is look up. It may sound cheesy, but inspiration really is all around us, and we continually look for inspiration from the settings and surroundings of our project locations.  When we were tasked…

Project Spotlight: House on a Bluff The marriage of structure and site Situated on a piece of direct waterfront property, House on a Bluff celebrates what it means to “live coastal.” The singular view, matched with bright, open interiors and a silhouette that mirrors the shingle style, is at once entirely unique and traditionally New…

Project Spotlight: Turkey Hill It’s a return to the traditional, classic, distinctly “American” home.  In 2020, our team set out to create a structure that, in a way, bears resemblance to the simpler house form that has been taking architectural design by storm, yet at the same time was unlike any modern farmhouse that had…