Westin Residence Condominium
The recent years have seen the boom of
condominium complexes in Providence, Rhode
Island. This trend is the urban developers’
answer to the increase of population, and
the increase in demand for livable space
that goes with it.
One of the recent luxury high-rise
condominium projects is The Residences at
the Westin. It is located on West Exchange
Street and stands at a height of a one
hundred sixteen meters. The Residences at
Westin has a total of thirty one floors. The
first fifteen floors function as the
extension of the nearby Westin Providence
Hotel, while the top sixteen floors contain
luxury condominium units built with top of
the line building materials and equipped
with all modern conveniences. The Residences
at the Westin were designed to cater to the
modern market and its more challenging and
shifting demands.
The Residences at the Westin was built by
TRO Jung Brannen in 2007. The TRO Jung
Brannen is the largest and most prominent
international architectural and design firm
in all of Boston.
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The TRO Jung Brannen is
the product of a merger between the TRO (The
Richie Organization), founded in 1909, and
the Jung Brannen Associates, founded in
1968. The unification of the two companies
under one name happened last July 2006. As
the pool of talents from both companies
joined to form an even bigger and more
inventive group of architects and designers,
the firm rose in popularity and became one
of the most in demand international
architectural and design firms.
Apart from the Residences at the Westin,
among the notable projects of the TRO Jung
Brannen firm are the Media 1 Tower in Dubai,
United Arab Emirates; the World Trade Centre
Residence at the Dubai International
Convention Center, which is also in Dubai;
The Residences at Manchester Place in
Manchester New Hampshire; the Grandview in
Boston, Massachusetts, and the Ten Park Row
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| Beside the Residences at the
Westin, also along West Exchange Street, is the
Neo-Traditionalist high-rise, The Westin Providence. It was
constructed during 1992 to 1993 by Nichols Brosch Sandocal &
Associates, Inc. It is one hundred meters high and it has
twenty five floors. As of February 2007, The Westin
Providence was the fourth tallest building in both the city
and the state.
The Westin Providence is home to the Westin Hotel. Having a
total of three hundred sixty-four rooms, it nabbed the glory
of being the largest hotel from Providence Biltmore, which
was constructed back in 1922.
The hotel, although impressive in height, is not
particularly remarkable. It has an old-style brick façade
and a pitched roof that do little to improve the building’s
overall visual impact. Respected local architecture
historian and member of the Rhode Island Historical
Preservation and
Heritage Commission McKenzie Woodward describes The Westin
Providence as bland, lacking in character and far from
architectural innovation.
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