• Hunters View

    Yesterday a danger zone—today, pure San Francisco
    By any measure, San Francisco ranks among the world’s most beautiful cities. Yet for years, in a sector that tourists never see, 50 barracks-style buildings constructed in 1943 housed 264 families in poverty and fear. Now, a new project is helping the community at Hunters View write a brighter...Read more

  • Columbia Pike

    A code transforms a commercial strip corridor
    First built over 200 years ago as a toll road connecting Washington, D.C. to greater Virginia, the Columbia Pike now serves as a direct route to the Pentagon and other capital landmarks. Until recently, this Arlington, Virginia thoroughfare was an aging commercial strip stifled by outdated single-...Read more

  • Iberville Offsites

    Turning blight into beauty
    Iberville Offsites provides affordable housing for moderate-income families, establishes new standards for green historic preservation, and strengthens a city still climbing back from one of the nation’s worst natural disasters. The development restored vernacular houses in stunning fashion across...Read more

  • Sundance Square

    Fort Worth builds a vibrant urban center
    Alongside its neighbors, Dallas and Arlington, the city of Fort Worth, Texas, is at the heart of the largest metropolitan area in the south. With roughly six million residents within an hour of downtown, the design of Fort Worth’s city center was in dire need of an update from its industrial-...Read more