Silo Ridge - Architectural Character:

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Hotel and Resort (shown above), Spa, Golf Club, and Conference Center

THE RESORT HOTEL is the focus of the Village Green Neighborhood. A prominent clapboard building with a stone base, wood porches and colonnades, inset and projecting balconies, garden spaces and out-buildings, the hotel is massed as a collection of buildings that step down the hillside and provide a natural transition from the level of the Village Green to the level of the golf course below. The spa and conference center front the green adjacent to the hotel, and are designed as separate buildings with a different but complementary character. Site amenities include a family swimming pool; intimate courtyard gardens with flowering plants and reflecting pools, and curving lawn terraces that step down naturally to the golf course to the south. From Route 22, the hotel and spa will appear as a rambling collection of low buildings screened by trees and other landscape elements.

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Show Above - Spa

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Golf Club and Conference Center (Golf Club South Elevation (Facing Golf) Shown Above)

THE GOLF CLUB will be a prominent Shingle Style building, one of the icons of the resort. Its entrance, set off by shade trees and ornamental shrubs, will front the Upper Green and command dramatic views to and from the golf course. The Club will negotiate the descending grade, using roof lines and gently sloping paths to move with the landscape. Careful detailing will play an important role in integrating the building with its surroundings. A terrace at the lower level of the building, adjacent to the course, will accommodate outdoor dining and golf carts.

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Show Above - Conference Center South Elevation (Facing Golf)

The Project - Links

Robert A.M. Stern:

"Silo Ridge has been designed as a series of buildings grouped around green spaces which tuck into the natural topography in a manner of historic towns, farmsteads and villages in the surrounding Dutchess County countryside, where small pockets of development preserve open space. The proposed landscape plan builds on goals outlined by Audubon International to create a community that integrates seamlessly with its natural surroundings. This harmony of building siting and landscape design will create the sense of having arisen organically over time." Robert A.M. Stern


"You have a beautiful piece of land in a beautiful part of the world……so, we start with the land, and we try to be light on the land," Robert A.M. Stern.


Ernie Els:

... in order to create classic golf courses of distinction.
"We will achieve this by formulating unique relationships with the world's finest developers who share our lofty ambitions. Together, we will create attractive destinations that adhere to the principles of sustainable development and sound environmental practice."



"Bring the natural look and flare of the site. We really want to make it a world-class golf course." Ernie Els


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