The Wellington Club Names Its Architectural Team for a 253-Residence Private Community

The Wellington Club has named its architectural team. Workshop/APD will lead the master plan and design the core amenities. Landscape architecture goes to LaGuardia Design Group. The community's 253 residences will be designed by a group of five firms drawn from New York, Atlanta, Florida, and London.

That last part is the unusual one. Most private club communities of this scale work with one residential architect, occasionally two. The Wellington has gone with five.

Workshop/APD as Master Plan Architect

Workshop/APD is the firm at the center of the plan. The New York studio is responsible for the master plan, the core amenities, and a share of the residences. They're an award-winning practice with a portfolio that runs from urban hospitality projects to private homes, and their work tends to read as confidently modern without being trendy.

Having the same firm do both the master plan and a portion of the homes is a useful choice. Master plans and individual residences are often designed by separate hands, and the result can feel disjointed. Workshop/APD's dual role gives the community a single architectural voice setting the tone, with the other firms working within it.

LaGuardia Design Group on Landscape

LaGuardia Design Group is one of the most respected landscape architecture practices in the country. Based out of the Hamptons, they've built their reputation on landscapes that feel like they've been there longer than the buildings around them.

At The Wellington, LaGuardia is shaping the gardens around residences, the connective tissue between neighborhoods, and the open spaces tied to the club. That work matters as much as the buildings themselves in a community where outdoor living and wellness are central to the design.

The Five Residential Firms

The 253 residences will be designed by:

• Workshop/APD (New York)

• D. Stanley Dixon (Atlanta)

• Geoffrey Mouen Architects (Florida)

• Morris Adjmi Architects (New York)

• Squire & Partners (London)

Each firm brings something different to the mix. D. Stanley Dixon is known for classical residential work rooted in Southern building traditions. Geoffrey Mouen's portfolio is built around the Florida coast, with homes that move easily between indoor and outdoor space. Morris Adjmi practices a kind of contextual modernism, designing buildings that feel clearly contemporary while drawing on the architectural language around them. Squire & Partners is the London voice in the group, known for design-led residential and mixed-use projects with a European sense of craft and material detail.

Together, the five firms cover a wide stylistic range across the community, from classical Southern through coastal Florida to European modern. The residences will read as genuinely different from each other, because they were designed by genuinely different architects working in their own languages.

The Four Home Categories

The 253 homes are organized into four types:

• Luxury residences

• Townhomes

• Estate homes

• Farms

The farm category is the most distinctive of the four. Most private club communities don't have a farm tier at all. Including one alongside townhomes and estate homes gives The Wellington a range that lets it function more like an actual neighborhood than a single-product development.

Why This Team

A development of this scale has a lot of options for assembling its team. The Wellington's choices are telling.

Hiring Workshop/APD as the lead architect means committing to a coherent overall vision. LaGuardia handles the landscape, which puts the outdoor spaces in the hands of one of the best firms in the field. The five-architect approach to the residences accepts some complexity in exchange for real architectural variety, and gives buyers a meaningful choice of design voice rather than minor variations on a single one.

Each firm on the list is a working practice with a body of completed work that has aged well. That's the kind of team you assemble when you want a community that will be lived in for decades, not just sold during its opening season.