Shingle Style Estate Retreat in Head of the Harbor | Smiros & Smiros Architects

Aerial view of a Head of the Harbor Shingle-style entertainment retreat with a circular arrival court, glass conservatory, formal lawns, gardens, and mature trees.

Shingle Style Retreat

— North Shore, NY —

Conceived as a private estate retreat for gathering, recreation, and renewal, this Shingle-style complex expands a North Shore estate onto an adjoining parcel. At its heart, a soaring atrium rises through multiple levels of entertainment, wellness, and sporting spaces, unified by an octagonal skylight, suspended chandelier, and iron spiral stair. A domed glass conservatory opens the architecture toward broad lawns and a formal rose garden, binding the retreat to its landscape. Expansive in program yet intimate in character, it creates a destination within the estate.

Watercolor architectural rendering of a Shingle-style estate retreat with a long symmetrical facade, red roof, dormers, cupolas, stone base, and central glazed pavilion. — This watercolor rendering depicts the North Shore retreat as a long Shingle-style estate composition, with a stone base, red terracotta roof, dormers, cupolas, and a central glazed pavilion. The image communicates the project's traditional exterior language while anticipating the contemporary recreation and entertainment program within.

The multi-story atrium connects the retreat's lower-level recreation and wellness spaces with the upper floors through a decorative steel spiral stair, gallery railings, and a glass roof. In this luxury residential amenity building, the stair hall becomes both circulation and architectural event.

Rendering of a multi-level atrium with an iron spiral stair, glass roof, circular chandelier, balconies, wood paneling, and lower-level circulation. — The multi-story atrium connects the retreat's lower-level recreation and wellness spaces with the upper floors through a decorative steel spiral stair, gallery railings, and a glass roof. In this luxury residential amenity building, the stair hall becomes both circulation and architectural event.

This rendering studies the vertical atrium at the heart of the North Shore entertainment retreat, where paneled walls, iron railings, arched openings, and a suspended celestial chandelier meet beneath an octagonal glass observation deck. The space links the retreat's modern amenities through a dramatic architectural core.

Rendering of a grand atrium with an octagonal glass skylight, circular chandelier, paneled walls, arched openings, and iron railings. — This rendering studies the vertical atrium at the heart of the North Shore entertainment retreat, where paneled walls, iron railings, arched openings, and a suspended celestial chandelier meet beneath an octagonal glass observation deck. The space links the retreat's modern amenities through a dramatic architectural core.

Rendering of a glass-roofed observatory above a residential atrium with iron railings, a large celestial globe, and expansive landscape views. — At the top of the North Shore retreat, the glass-roofed observatory extends the atrium upward into a light-filled room for viewing and reflection. The rendering shows exposed steel structure matching the steel spiral stair, a central celestial globe integrated into the chandelier, and broad landscape views reinforcing the project's mix of recreation, study, and panache.

White glass conservatory at a Head of the Harbor estate retreat with a domed cupola, glazed roof, classical detailing, stone base, and lawn foreground. — This North Shore luxury estate retreat includes a white glass conservatory with a domed cupola, decorative mullions, classical gables, and a stone base set into the lawn. The garden pavilion extends the project’s entertainment and gathering spaces while creating a light-filled architectural counterpoint to the adjoining Shingle-style residence.

High aerial view of a Shingle-style estate retreat in Head of the Harbor with red roofs, formal drive, conservatory, broad lawns, rose garden, and autumn trees. — The aerial perspective frames this luxury Shingle-style retreat within the larger North Shore estate, showing its red roofscape, circular court, glass conservatory, lawns, paths, and surrounding gardens. The composition reflects a private place for entertaining, wellness, recreation, and connection to the landscape.

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51 Glen Street, Glen Cove, NY 11542
516 676 9200

3 Columbus Circle, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10019
212 956 9326

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