Category: #WhatAreTheyBuilding
26 properties
New architecture in the city of Providence after the year 2000 — proposals and completed structures.
A new 13-story office tower headquarters for BCBS Rhode Island built in 2008
The first building in Rhode Island made from recycled shipping containers is available for lease as office space
The existing BioMed center bounded by Brown, Meeting, Thayer, and Olive Streets got a $95m addition for a new Biomedical Research center
A hub of student and museum activity for RISD named after the late Happy Chase, an ardent preservationist of properties along Benefit Street
21st-century modernist construction for micro-loft student housing at the base of College Hill
A new, dense, trapezoidal residential building with ground-floor retail on the edge of the Jewelry District
An unconventional home (for Providence) in a conventioanl working class neighborhood
A modern, 13-story glass box reflecting the mall, the Westin, Union Station, and Waterplace park.
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.
Before it was demolished and rebuilt, the Ocean House was one of the few surviving 1800s seaside resort hotels in RI
A seven story low rise condominium complex along the Blackstone River with 255 units — the first phase of a larger residential center
The OneTen tower would have been the tallest building in Providence, and the tallest residential tower in New England at the time.
The first LEED-certified college residence hall in the state, part of the Rhode Island College campus
A hub of scientific and academic innovation and one of the first projects to break ground in the newly available I-195 District
A new bank construction done in a classical form on Smith Hill steps away from the State House.
An early entry into the luxury apartment market built in 2003. By 2005 it was purchased and redeveloped as 330 condominiums.
A three-quarters of a billion dollar investment in Downtown Providence, 2005, that was too good to be true
4-story new construction marries a 2-story Greek Revival 150 years younger at the base of College Hill
An new addition to a old home along historic Angell Street brings new character and larger space for those that want to practice their zen
An older building made way for a new patient care and operating room facility in the middle of a dense residental neighborhood
A pair of residential towers built during the mid-2000s post 9-11 boom — condos selling at the time for $300k to $1m.
A 56,000 square foot center for Brown University’s international studies students
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.
Four residential units plus retail in a industrial chic box added density to the West Side in 2007.
A WBNA project house built on the site of a former auto body business along bustling Westminster Street
An 80' high, 400' long steel bridge spanning the Providence River, preassembled and floated into place on August 27, 2006