ICON Architecture

Designed to Enterprise Green criteria and the first affordable Passive House building in Massachusetts, Finch Cambridge prioritizes holistic sustainable principles while staying laser focused on energy and resilience.  Inspired in form and materiality by the urban wildland of Fresh Pond Reservoir across the street, the façade is warm and playful, with tree-like columns and roof […]

Creating 62 new affordable homes in the first new building constructed as part of the larger redevelopment on the former Holtzer Electric Factory site, Holtzer Park was approved through the City of Boston’s Article 80 process, with input through extensive community and agency stakeholder meetings. The design integrates this underutilized TOD land back into the […]

Fronting Olmsted’s historic Arborway and steps from Forest Hills T-station, Velo has transformed a two-acre asphalt parking lot into a vibrant, transit-oriented community. A curved façade floating above a street level portico greets the public, inviting pedestrians to enjoy new commercial space and the adjacent public pocket park. The three separate buildings embrace a lushly landscaped interior […]

Port 45 responds to its location at the intersection of Boston’s most vibrant neighborhoods — where South Boston, Seaport and South End meet.  A broad, tall glass elevation capped by a strong, horizontal canopy invites views into the A Street retail.  Patterned, two-story facades, tall wood doors, bold canopies and gardens mark a series of […]