ICON Architecture

ICON Architecture designed the modernization of Salem Heights, a 283-unit affordable housing community located in Salem, MA. Composed of two 10-story highrise towers built in the 1970’s, the complex contains 77 one-bedroom and 186 two-bedroom apartments. The two towers are connected at the ground floor, and sited atop a hill with expansive views of the […]

Located in the heart of Boston’s Downtown Crossing, this former office highrise has been reborn as 48 loft apartments. Taking advantage of the historic building’s large windows and ornate terracotta façade, these “micro” units offer open plans and contemporary finishes. Sitting directly over a MBTA subway station entry at its base, the design incorporates a […]

Located within a walk of the Yale New Haven Hospital District, this nine-story tower provides 104 one- and two-bedroom units of mixed-income and intergenerational housing: 39 units of affordable senior, supportive, and special needs housing as well as 65 units of mixed-income rental housing all above a base of community, program, and retail space. Each unit’s large windows provide views of Downtown New Haven […]

ICON is leading the team that is stitching together interventions of repair and reprogramming to this twelve-story, 1970’s era, 132-unit, senior housing high-rise. As a result of detailed planning, evaluation and collaboration amongst all stakeholders, rehabbed and refreshed units coupled with newly redeveloped amenity spaces, support an existing older population to age-in-place. MPDC’s vision for Smith House […]