ICON Architecture

Avenir elegantly combines 241 upscale apartments with vibrant retail and transportation links in Boston’s Bulfinch Triangle sports and entertainment district. Looking across to Boston’s Zakim Bridge, Avenir reclaims a 400 foot long block over Boston’s “Big Dig,” meeting the technical challenges of building on top of new transit infrastructure and a subway station. The 10-story […]

The two-building Tempo complex of 320 luxury apartments is uniquely situated along Cambridge’s Route 2, while capturing pastoral views of the 120-acre Alewife Brook Reservation beyond. Broad front façades offer varied massing, highlighted with a series of gridded bays to evoke a traditional Cambridge building scale. Long building wings extending to the north envelop a […]

Transformed as a HOPE VI community, this revitalized housing centers on a new park and connects back into the surrounding Roslindale neighborhood with new streets and sidewalks. 216 apartments, in a range of housing types, engage this new public realm. A 5-story apartment building marks the primary corner of the site with one- and two-bedroom […]

Formerly the oldest housing development in the state of Connecticut, Hurricane Sandy flooded the Washington Village apartments with three feet of water in 2012. Flood damage, undersized apartments, and egress issues compounded to kickstart the “Public-Private” partnership including city, housing authority, and developer. Awarded CHOICE funding based upon the proposed Transformation Plan, ICON provided permitting […]