• The Parks—Historic Walter Reed

    The Parks—Historic Walter Reed is the adaptive reuse and redevelopment of a historically significant medical campus: the primary US Army medical center of the 20th Century, in Washington DC. The campus was originally built with Georgian-style brick buildings on a north-south axis, serving veterans...Read more

  • Essex Crossing

    Located on portions of nine blocks in the heart of Manhattan’s historic Lower East Side, Essex Crossing is rising on six acres that sat mostly vacant since 1967, representing one of the most significant urban renewal projects in the history of New York City. Essex Crossing is now home to more than...Read more

  • NewHolly

    Between 1997 and 2001, the Seattle Housing Authority transformed the dilapidated, low-income housing community of Holly Park into a diverse and dynamic mixed-income neighborhood—NewHolly. Constructed in the 1940s to house World War II defense workers and converted into low-income public housing in...Read more
  • Framework for Empowerment Buenos Aires ground level

    A Framework for Empowerment

    Design enables social transformation
    This plan proposes the revitalization of Villa 31, an 80-year-old squatter-built shantytown in Buenos Aires, for its long-time residents—using bottom-up and top-down implementation concepts. A Framework for Empowerment builds on the local, low-tech recycling industry—13.6 percent of adults in Villa...Read more