Award Winners



Rollins Square (Boston, MA)
designed by CBT/Childs Bertman Tseckares.… CBA Landscape Architects (landscape architects, Brookline, MA); Weidlinger Associates (structural engineer, Cambridge, MA);
Fitzemeyer & Tocci (mechanical engineer, Woburn, MA); Peter J. Roche, Real Estate and Community Development (development consultant, Winthrop, MA); and Suffolk Construction (general contractor, Boston, MA).

“Rollins Square” is one of those high-density, mid-rise, urban housing edifices that one could easily drive by without noticing, a good background building yet, once noticed, a building with presence. Through judicious urban design, massing and façade composition, “Rollins Square” fits well within its mid-rise neighborhood and, thanks to the appropriate scale and articulation of its vertical surfaces, reinforces the spatial quality, texture and visual rhythm of the streetscape. The jury praised its ambitious program incorporating sidewalk-level retail space topped by 5 stories of mixed market-rate and affordable apartments organized around an interior courtyard.