Project Category: Adaptive Reuse

Sturbridge Senior Center

The mission of the Sturbridge/Fiskdale Senior Center is to provide a wide range of valuable, high-quality services and programs to the aging population in town. They promote participants’ health and welfare, provide opportunities for engaging in socialization, support their independence, and help them to continue to live full lives at home and in their community. […]

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Artblock 731

Catering to Boston’s “Artist Space Initiative,” ArtBlock 731 creates two new live/work loft buildings wrapped around a historic school converted to artist work space. The contemporary exterior emulates the surrounding rhythms and materials of the historic South End and expresses the community-of-arts within.  The public experience of ArtBlock 731 revolves around the ArtSpace 731 gallery at […]

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Dartmouth Hotel

Melding the restoration of this neglected 1871 National Register hotel with the new addition of artist live/work housing, Dartmouth Hotel has regained its elegance at the heart of Roxbury’s Dudley Square. After sitting vacant for 30 years, restoration required painstaking renewal of the rare marble façade and meticulous rebuilding of ornate wood-trimmed dormers and slate […]

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Brimfield Town Hall

Working with the Town of Brimfield and their Owner’s Project Manager, Terva Corp, ICON Architecture developed plans to revitalize Brimfield’s historic Town Hall. The building is in the Brimfield Center Historic District and is vacant. Built in 1878, the Town Hall is a rare example of civic Stick-style architecture. It was designed by Springfield architect […]

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