2009 Winning Project

Maverick Landing

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  • Organization: ICON Architecture, Inc (www.iconarch.com)
  • Location: East Boston, Massachusetts
  • The winning project, built by ICON Architecture, is a multi-block development on the East Boston’s waterfront implementing midrise to lowrise structures to accommodate various living arrangements—from elderly apartments to market-rate townhouses. A transit-oriented development, Maverick Landing, which is Massachusetts’s first green and affordable multi-family housing development, adhering to “healthy homes” principles and achieving LEED certification, is a model for projects funded through the Federal Housing and Urban Development HOPE VI program. The project restores historic street patterns and reconnects residents with the surrounding community. The site offers public open spaces including a park, a crescent shape of townhouses that invites the public waterfront park into the development, and broad walkways that link a community center with housing on all sides.