• Southwest Waterfront DC waterfront

    Southwest Waterfront

    Expanding Upward Along a Forgotten Waterfront
    Part of Pierre L’Enfant’s original plan for the Capitol, Washington, DC’s Southwest Waterfront has seen better days. At the beginning of the 20th century, it had a thriving commercial corridor and a multi-ethnic community. Urban renewal, that well-intended but destructive force, swept through the...Read more
  • Station Center Union City artwork

    Station Center

    Affordable Housing Hits on All Marks
    Union City is one of the farthest-flung BART stops in the San Francisco Bay Area, and one of the least developed. As part of a regional effort to focus transit-oriented development around transit stations, the city developed an ambitious plan to build a research development campus, market-rate...Read more
  • Sullivan Station Chicago entire building

    Sullivan Station

    Affordable Living on the Lake
    Sullivan Station, spearheaded by VOA Associates Incorporated, repairs a Chicago neighborhood torn by mid-20th Century urban renewal. The five-acre site was part of a low-rise South Side neighborhood torn apart to build high-rise public housing that was, in turn, demolished in the 1990s due to...Read more
  • Aldershot Extension Aldershot row of houses

    Aldershot

    Town is Extended with Affordable Housing and Landmark Buildings
    One of the largest brownfield developments in the United Kingdom has produced a sustainable town extension that meets the local community’s most urgent needs. The reuse of a military installation in Aldershot, England, known as “The Home of the British Army,” offers three vital assets: affordable...Read more