ICON Architecture

Capitalizing on views of the Newport harbor, this new hillside neighborhood creates 425 homes targeted to a mix of incomes. New streets and an axial boulevard connect views of Newport’s waterfront back to the community, engaging neighbors with broad, tree-lined sidewalks and landscaped community spaces. Market and affordable units are mixed throughout the site, in […]

The dramatic reconfiguration of this 11-acre site and its existing buildings was designed to shed an outdated “70’s modern” look and enhance this housing’s livability and appeal.  Strategic demolition, building upgrades, and targeted new construction combine to create 200 affordable apartments.  The former site “superblock” has been divided into smaller neighborhood sized blocks, with new […]

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 […]