Affordable merit: City West: Phase II, Cincinnati: Torti Gallas and Partners: Silver Spring, Md.(residential architect design awards 05) From: Residential Architect | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Drueding, Meghan | COPYRIGHT 2005 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

When Torti Gallas and Partners took on a HOPE VI affordable housing redevelopment project in Cincinnati's West End, it didn't have to look far for a design muse. "Dayton Street, the street where all the bankers traditionally lived, is five blocks north of City West," says architect Lawrence Antoine, AIA. "The idea was to associate this project with something everyone in the city thinks of as a 'good neighborhood.'" So he and colleague Jeff Beam, Associate AIA, developed a palette o...