Langham Court
Four Corners Development Corporation
Boston, Massachusetts
This 84-unit residential complex is located on a one-acre site in the heart of Boston's South End historic district. The design reinterprets characteristic features of the surrounding Victorian neighborhood: dormers, bays, a variety of roof forms, and a rich palette of multi-colored brick, granite, cast-stone, and glazed ceramic tile.
Relevant Project Information:
- Development (at 81.5 units per acre) is located on a one-acre site in the heart of Boston's historic South End neighborhood.
- Residences are distributed across two four-story townhouse units and a five-story elevator-accessed apartment building.
- South-facing central courtyard provides semi-private rear terraces for first-floor residents as well as larger public landscaped terraces, seating areas, and lawns.
- Development is constructed over an underground parking garage, which is invisible from the street and courtyard.
- Complex mixes one-third heavily subsidized, one-third partly subsidized, and one-third market-rate units.
- Inclusion of market-rate units, which are distributed randomly throughout, elevates the standards for the affordable housing. Quality of finishes and detailing is identical for all units.
Awards:
- American Institute of Architects -- Honor Award
- American Institute of Architects -- New England Award of Excellence
- City Design Center, University of Illinois, Chicago -- Best Practices in Affordable Housing Award
Additional Recognition:
- Featured in Architectural Record, Architecture, Atlantic Monthly magazines
- Featured in the books The Architecture of Affordable Housing, and Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing
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