ICON Architecture

Highlighting a trend to surplus aging schools, The 1915-built Athol Middle School was completely renovated to provide 50 affordable studio, one, and two bedroom units for active seniors. This 66,600 SF Art Deco style structure offers modern and convenient apartments that create a vibrant living experience for this retirement community, while preserving the best of […]

Creative selective demolition allowed this former rubber factory to be molded into new use as artist live/work housing. ICON specifically designed units to fit each resident’s needs, making way for pottery kilns, a circus trapeze, a dance studio, and even a taxidermy shop. The complex now houses a range of unit types, including townhouses, open […]

Two renovated buildings in Salem’s Point neighborhood create homes for formerly homeless or transitioning young people.  These 27 affordable studio and one-bedroom units offer stability that will allow residents to rebuild their lives. The on-site resident manager occupies one unit and can utilize the private meeting room to facilitate communication and support.  New accessible entrances […]

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 […]