At the heart of this project is the adaptive reuse of the former Mount Carmel Church in East Boston into a residential building. The preserved building will feature 14 units, and its adjacent site will be transformed into a landscape space with both garden and a parking court, bringing a stronger presence of landscape to one of Boston’s most dense neighborhoods. Another part of the project is the new 4-story residential building across the street, with 94 units, underground parking, roof deck, and private gardens for first floor residents.

Along Frankfort Street, the façade of the new building has periodic setbacks with stoops and planting to create a varied and dynamic streetscape in a neighborhood of buildings directly fronting narrow streets. At the corner of Frankfort Street and Gove Streets, the building is set back with a public terrace overlooking the public realm and providing an extension of the possible ground floor retail out to the street. The green roof helps to decrease storm water leaving the site, and the accessible areas provide a panoramic view to downtown Boston across the harbor. The street trees are planted with structural soil, aeriation and irrigation infrastructure to foster longevity, and canopy growth to ameliorate urban heat island effect from the street.