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Blackstone Studios
Pawtucket, Rhode Island

 

"The major design challenge was to create a flexible, useful outdoor space within a site never intended to be used as a garden: a late 19th century brick mill complex and to design it for the contemporary needs of the tenants, a mixture of designers, artists, and residential lofts.

The design is primarily composed of hardscape elements: a brick walkway and circular landing leading to the main building entrance; and a pea stone gravel terrace, bordered within a rectangular grid of granite setts, a symbolic nod to the building's previous home as the RI Cardboard Company."

 


More photos from
Blackstone Studios


Before work started

(Pictured at right, top)
The perimeter beds adjacent to the fence and brick facade feature "industrial strength" plants - flowering pear trees, Japanese holly, arborvitae, clematis, climbing hydrangea, Boston ivy, and spring flowering bulbs; containers near the entry way feature ornamental grasses and seasonal herbs.

(Pictured at right, bottom)
Another view of Blackstone Studios

 
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