The Plant

Providence, Rhode Island | 2004-2008 | 4,000 s.f.

Collaboration Ron Henderson, Sophath Toun, Pablo Ortiz-Pena, David Giuliano, Brendan Riley; Puente Providence; Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse; ICON Architects

Recognition Merit Award for Design, ASLA-RI

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The Providence Bleaching and Dyeing Mill was renovated by non-profit Puente Providence as a small business incubator and artist live/work space. It was the first project in Providence to be approved with the newly-adopted live/work ordinance and the spirit of the project was to enliven the public spaces of The Plant with the lively agency of residents and artists. The landscape utilizes recycled and found materials from the site for pavements and site furnishings, promotes urban agriculture with the selection of fruiting tree species, and employs sustaining water and drainage systems on a remediated Superfund site.