ICON Architecture

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 […]

Once the educational cornerstone of this south shore community, the 1928 National Registered Alice E. Fulton School has been reborn as an affordable, active senior community of 63 units. Preserving the historic school plan, former classrooms have been transformed into single apartments, incorporating original details and historic wainscots, cloak rooms and decorative tin ceilings. The […]

Combining a new 30-unit addition with major upgrades to 146 existing senior apartments, the 1971-built Morville House has been given a new life. Located in Boston’s active Fenway and Symphony Hall area, the new tower was designed to reduce shadow impacts on neighboring historic housing. New high-tech window and wall systems, combined with new mechanical […]