ICON Architecture

Melding the restoration of this neglected 1871 National Register hotel with the new addition of artist live/work housing, Dartmouth Hotel has regained its elegance at the heart of Roxbury’s Dudley Square. After sitting vacant for 30 years, restoration required painstaking renewal of the rare marble façade and meticulous rebuilding of ornate wood-trimmed dormers and slate […]

Overlook Terrace transformed an obsolete 15-acre public housing site into a leading-edge, sustainable,  331-unit affordable residential community, informed by two years of community discussion.  The heart of this re-connected community is the central green, a lushly landscaped open space for families to gather and grow. The public housing residents are rehoused in high-performing, energy-efficient, gracious, […]

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 […]