ICON Architecture

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 […]

Centre and Main has transformed a multi-acre city block in the heart of Brockton into a mixed-use, TOD complex with 224 new apartments, 52,000 square feet of retail/commercial space, and a 415-space Municipal Garage, all designed by ICON. Within steps of downtown’s commuter rail station, this decade-long, three phase project has brought new life to downtown […]