Winning Proposal, “Edge As Center” Competition for the Redevelopment of Brickbottom

ABA, working with Jonathan Solomon, is a winner of Edge as Center: Envisioning the Post-Industrial Landscape, an international ideas competition reconsidering Somerville’s Brickbottom District. The district, long isolated by rail lines and highways, is reframed in the brief as a place where those same edges can become drivers of renewal. The competition calls for new connections, transit routes, public landscapes, and mixed-use development that transform outdated industrial boundaries into anchors for a more integrated urban future.