ICON Architecture

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 […]

The award-winning 226-unit Quinnipiac Terrace transformed an obsolete housing project into a  “community of choice,” blending both rental and homeownership opportunities, and mixing families and senior residents. Taking advantage of its attractive riverfront site, the plan reintroduced the neighborhood street grid, relinking the adjacent Fairhaven neighborhood, and creating views to the river with its enhanced […]

This former box manufacturing industrial district has been transformed as a new 250+ unit, multi-block residential neighborhood. ICON has designed four new infill developments positioned amidst existing residential and retail structures, and worked with the City of Chelsea to design and build new streets and public parks. The Box District comprises 49 units in three separate […]