Category: #WhatAreTheyBuilding
64 properties
New architecture in the city of Providence after the year 2000 — proposals and completed structures.
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Gilbane Development Company created a new student housing complex by razing nine historic homes
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A low-rise, 5-story apartment building on the waterfront with a strange design adds livable space but no character to the waterfront
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A new 6 and 5 story boutique-brand hotel on the edge of the Jewelry District with views of the riverfront
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A quick redevelopment of two historic homes in an eroding historic district under pressure to provide “modern” student housing
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A new 3-story building for offices, meeting rooms, and flexible classrooms clad in untreated steel sits in the corner of what once was a parking lot
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A narrow, modern duplex building on a narrow, hard to build lot introduces hard angles to a residential neighborhood
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A new 13-story office tower headquarters for BCBS Rhode Island built in 2008
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The first building in Rhode Island made from recycled shipping containers is available for lease as office space
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An unassuming commercial building gets a makeover in 2025 as a community gathering space and offices for a new non-profit
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A new infill home thoughtfully designed to fit the neighborhood while adhering to modern building practices
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A new set of residence halls to rise five stories along Brook Street, creating a pocket of dense stident housing
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The existing BioMed center bounded by Brown, Meeting, Thayer, and Olive Streets got a $95M addition for a new Biomedical Research center
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A modern, glassy set of student buildings on once taxable-land near the bustling Thayer Street commercial corridor
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A hub of student and museum activity for RISD named after the late Happy Chase, an ardent preservationist of properties along Benefit Street
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A proposed 12-story modular building comprised of individual apartments pre-built and stacked in place was designed but never built
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21st-century modernist construction for micro-loft student housing at the base of College Hill
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New apartment construction on a previously vacant lot as part of a larger block of residential renovations
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A new, dense, trapezoidal residential building with ground-floor retail on the edge of the Jewelry District
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A contemporary, boxy building for student housing which contributes to the erosion of what was once an intact historic district
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An unconventional home (for Providence) in a conventional working class neighborhood
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A state-of-the-art grenhouse, specializing in leafy greens and basil, opened in 2019 on the site of a former industrial plant
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A modern, 13-story glass box reflecting the mall, the Westin, Union Station, and Waterplace park.
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One of a few new hotels built in the late 2010s with barely an effort made to be more than a bland off-the-highway-style, could-be-anywhere hotel.
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An 80' high, 400' long steel bridge spanning the Providence River, preassembled and floated into place on August 27, 2006
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A brand-new Johnson & Wales facility and the first project to break ground where I-195 used to be
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A contemporary white box sits atop a ribbon of glass and contains a flexible set of performance spaces that can be configured in multiple ways
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A new four-story apartment building with commercial space replaces a century-old 2 1/2 story gable roof house
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A modern gymnasium that borrowed some of the classically-inspired details of the building it replaced
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A new 6-story apartment in downtown with 143 studio, 1- and 2-bedroom apartments was developed by Cornish Associates and opened in 2020
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The first new residential facility built at RISD in 34 years offers 148 rooms to first-year students
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Before it was demolished and rebuilt, the Ocean House was one of the few surviving 1800s seaside resort hotels in RI
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A seven story low rise condominium complex along the Blackstone River with 255 units — the first phase of a larger residential center
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The OneTen tower would have been the tallest building in Providence, and the tallest residential tower in New England at the time.
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A mixed-use commercial and residential development on land vacated by the relocation of interstate 195
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About 50 apartments and seven stories was considered for Pike Street with an unusual screen wall featuring a LED lighting display
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The first LEED-certified college residence hall in the state, part of the Rhode Island College campus
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Six new apartments in a trendy-styled contemporary building sited on a once vacant lot overlooking a historically significant part of the city
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A hub of scientific and academic innovation and one of the first projects to break ground in the newly available I-195 District
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A new bank construction done in a classical form on Smith Hill steps away from the State House.
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A brand-new Level 3 health laboratory will upgrade the state's health crisis reponse and research capabilities
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A new building takes advantage of a small space to introduce additional density in an already dense edge of downtown and the Jewelry District
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A six-story, square plan apartment building adding density to the Jewelry District
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A large condominium complex in a desirable neighborhood that hit the market just after the late-2000s real estate collapse
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An old house gets a renovation and a nearby addition for a total of five new “luxury” condominium units
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A six-story pile of setbacks and surface changes along the Moshassuck River, Amtrack train corridor, and the State House
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A new five-story, 127-unit development breaks ground with phase 1 in 2023
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A new building to replace three previous structures seems to have stalled after developers added an additional level for a total of five stories
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An early entry into the luxury apartment market built in 2003. By 2005 it was purchased and redeveloped as 330 condominiums.
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A three-quarters of a billion dollar investment in Downtown Providence, 2005, that was too good to be true
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4-story new construction marries a 2-story Greek Revival 150 years younger at the base of College Hill
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Thirty “workforce’-priced apartment units in a three-story podium building occupying long vacant space on the West Side
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A new addition to a old home (and the demolition of another) on historic Angell St. brings new character and more space to those that want to find their zen
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An older building made way for a new patient care and operating room facility in the middle of a dense residental neighborhood
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A new five-story apartment building set on two adjoined lots on the edge of the Thayer Street shopping district
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A new three story, boxy and flat modern apartment building on an important historic East Side corner
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A pair of residential towers built during the mid-2000s post 9-11 boom — condos selling at the time for $300k to $1m.
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A 56,000 square foot center for Brown University’s international studies students
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A blocky, not very interesting building adds much needed housing to an already dense neighborhood
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A mix of retail, parking, hotel rooms, and upscale condominiums. At 31 stories and 358 feet tall, it is currently the 3rd tallest structure in Rhode Island.
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Four residential units plus retail in a industrial chic box added density to the West Side in 2007.
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A contemporary 3-story in-fill home designed to be the first energy passive multi-family dwelling in Providence
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A WBNA project house built on the site of a former auto body business along bustling Westminster Street
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Additional apartments have been added to a busy street corner but at the cost of a neighborhood institution
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Brown University builds a +300,000 square foot life sciences laboratory in the center of the Jewelry District