ICON Architecture

The Town Hall was in an old school building first constructed in 1938, then significantly expanded in the 1960’s. After a detailed assessment of the existing building, the design team was determined that the existing heavy timber roof construction, floors, and exterior walls could be retained (approximately 70% of the existing building). The design inserts […]

Overlook Terrace transforms an obsolete 15-acre public housing site into a leading-edge, sustainable, TOD 331-unit affordable residential community.  Guided by two years of community meetings, the new site plan reclaims open space and creates “rightsized” healthy homes. The heart of this re-connected community will be the central green, a lushly landscaped open space for families […]

Olmsted Green creatively weaves a new neighborhood along the 65-acre Mass Audubon Nature Preserve, Boston’s largest open space. Targeting sustainable design principles, the 42-acre site, formerly Boston State Hospital, tightly clusters 520 residential units around garden courts oriented to long views of the pastoral setting, preserving existing trees and much open space. Mixing affordable rental […]

Situated along Boston’s Inner Harbor, this nine acre, transit-oriented neighborhood replaced an obsolete 1940s public housing “superblock”. Despite its density of 44 units per acre, the site blends substantial public open space with restoration of the historic street grid, reconnecting the site to the surrounding community and providing both visual and physical connections to its magnificent […]