ICON Architecture

Transforming the existing library, a 1971 Brutalist-style concrete and brick building totaling 57,000 SF, into a modern Learning Commons meant virtually turning the building inside out. Creating a vibrant place for students required overcoming the problems of a rigid structure with a deep building footprint, little daylight and numerous building systems challenges. Dark glass and […]

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 […]

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 […]