2016 Charter Awards
These are the 2016 Charter Award-winning projects
Master Plan for Revitalization of the Canal System
Lowell, Massachusetts
The famous historic mill buildings of Lowell, Massachusetts have formed the basis for the city’s resurgence—but these assets are sometimes difficult to find among the city’s grid, and public spaces are lacking.
Orleans Landing
Detroit, Michigan
In a sector of Detroit with diverse assets— waterfront land, brick industrial buildings, greenways, and historic streets—but little economic activity, the Orleans Landing project creates top-of-the-line urbanism.
East End Transformation
Richmond, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia’s two-mile East End Transformation corridor plan, a 350-acre vision for a hospital campus– centered development in an economically challenged area, brought together residents, business owners, nonprofit leaders, and public offic
Currie
Calgary, Canada
Nicknamed “Cowtown,” the city of Calgary historically served as the center of Canada’s cattle and meatpacking industries.
The Lofts of Washington University
St. Louis, Missouri
Five blocks away from the main campus, on a brownfield site along a bustling commercial strip, The Lofts of Washington University create an environmentally sound student-housing center integrated flawlessly into the fabric of St. Louis.
Pollin Memorial
Washington, District Of Columbia
On the East bank of the Anacostia River, just a few miles from the United States Capitol, Pollin Memorial brings a historically sensitive approach to new affordable development in Washington, DC.
Nanhu New Country Village
Nanhu, China
All over China, scarce farmland is being developed as rural families flee their farms for better-paying jobs in cities. The farms that remain are inefficient and fragmented.
Sansome and Broadway
San Francisco, California
In the middle of the last century, a new network of elevated highways slashed through San Francisco’s delicate historic neighborhoods.