• Winthrop Family Historical Garden

    In a walkable, growing neighborhood in the Northside of Chicago, a community garden tells an important historical narrative while providing a multi-use gathering space. Due to restrictive covenants, the 4600 block of Winthrop Avenue was the only area of the Uptown neighborhood where Black residents...Read more

  • Brookline High School Expansion

    Brookline High School is unusual—not a single building but a campus spread across several sites grouped around a historic park. Cypress Field is one of the first US municipal parks established as a playground, part of a park system planned by Brookline-based Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. The high...Read more

  • Rebuilding Tremont Street in Mission Hill

    Rebuilding Tremont Street transformed a previously underdeveloped corridor in Mission Hill, Boston, with fine new architecture near the Roxbury Crossing subway station. Simple and well-executed mixed-use and residential buildings on five sites totaling two acres, built over several blocks, raise...Read more

  • Finley Street Cottages

    Two single-family lots (each about a third of an acre) were filled in with 16 courtyard units in Atlanta, creating a model for attainable workforce housing. Finley Street Cottages (FStC) consists of two historic houses, duplexes, accessory units, and guest houses grouped around a private courtyard—...Read more