Seeing the low, monolithic volumes of Ridge House from a distance, you’d be forgiven for thinking that they are part of a piece of monumental land art. Seamless, pared down and uniform-looking, the two structures that form this rural holiday escape, set in the green expanses of upstate New York, are the work of Brooklyn-based architecture duo Max Worrell and Jejon Yeung (featured in 2024’s Wallpaper* USA 400 guide to creative America). Their references and cues for the design, unsurprisingly perhaps, were just as much in the client’s brief and sensibilities, as in the art world.
‘He was very sensitive to the landscape,’ says Worrell. ‘We agreed we wanted something that is an abstraction of the ridge, very subservient to the geology and landscape, but at the same time very grounded and spatially layered and complex.’ The duo cite sculptors Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy and Michael Heizer among their key influences.
