StudioMEJA is a boutique architecture firm based in Providence, Rhode Island. Our work seeks to create well-crafted design, meaningful places and great relationships.
The G-pub is a gastro-pub which occupies the ground level of the ProvidenceG complex.
Entering through a grand double-height space with a sculptural metal stair, you are lead into a composition framed by exposed concrete and ductwork, softened with touches of leather banquets and reclaimed wood tables. The lacquered walnut butcher-block bar provides a richly textured surface over which to share a pint.
The walls are covered with lime-washed oak which echoes the efflorescence of the concrete and classic sub-way tile, evoking the tradition of under-ground occupancy.
The Providence Journal called the space “a monument to industrial design…the result is just stunning”.
The G-Pub won the 2014 Gold Rhode Island Monthly Design Awards for Commercial Interior Design.
Completed in 2014
This entrance lobby is the primary public space on Dorrance Street in a redeveloped four building mixed-use ProvidenceG complex in Downtown Providence, serving 50 residential units, retail, office, restaurants and structured parking.
The original corporate lobby, with heavy stone-clad columns and a small double-height space was updated with Venetian plaster, Macassar Ebony and acid washed concrete finished surfaces.
Completed in 2014
Existing Lobby Before Renovation
The Rooftop at the G is the only place of its kind in southern New England. Accessible for all of the tenants at the ProvidenceG complex as well a public rooftop bar, the space features views of downtown underneath a retractable glass awning.
Completed in 2014
This former Gas Company headquarters from 1924 is seeing new life as luxury apartments. On the corner of Weybosset and Orange Street and part of the ProvidenceG complex, this building will house additional retail and office space as well as the G-pub restaurant underground. The residential spaces are designed for maximum efficiency with cove-lighting featured in most great rooms.
Finishes include walnut cabinets, granite countertops and bamboo flooring. Two units delicately preserve the Gas Company’s former President’s Office and Board room.
Originally constructed in 1860 on the corner of Weybosset and Dorrance In Providence, RI, this 12ft x 40ft building has had its brownstone trim and storefronts restored. On the ground level, the Garde de le Mer Restaurant fills the new addition. Above the restaurant are three floors with residential apartments overlooking downtown.
Part of the Providence G Complex, the exterior brick was repointed, brownstone stripped of paint and repaired, and the historic windows were intensively restored. The storefront was designed and fabricated to echo its historic past, while serving the modern restaurant use inside.
The Garde de la Mer Restaurant sits on the ground level. An extension built to the side houses the bar for the restaurant with a mezzanine above looking down on the former exterior of the Providence Gas Company.
Completed in 2015
One of the first parking garages (ever!) the Narragansett Hotel Garage has long been in danger of demolition.
Serving as parking for the ProvidenceG complex, the exterior red paint was stripped to reveal the original buff brick, and the interior steel and concrete floors have been restructured. Most strikingly, historically accurate windows have been installed.
The lower floor will continue to provide structured parking (via double and quad lifts) while the upper floors are being converted to apartments.
Completed in 2014
ProvidenceG site before construction
An existing four-story mill building, the former Mechanical Fabric Mill, is to be converted to a mixed-use, entrepreneurial center.
The first floor will house office space, a restaurant/bar, and commercial kitchens. The top three floors will be converted to residential apartments. A three-story communicating space will extend from the first floor to the third, with office/studio spaces surrounding, and will connect these floors vertically through particular views.
This project is slated for completion in July 2016.
The former CJ Fox manufacturing headquarters in Providence is undergoing an extensive rehabilitation, converting it to 50,000sf of office space.
The main architectural move is to reveal as much of the natural beauty of the building’s structure as possible, letting it frame the daily activity which will soon occupy it. We found our inspiration in the subtle, almost abstract, details of the connection between materials.
In Construction.
The Gordon School in East Providence needed a renovation of their 'Commons' space in the original Bill Warner designed facility. This required all design and construction to happen over the summer.
Our approach was to retain the character defining features of the space: board-form concrete, the pyramidal ceiling and the oak floor. Using those materials as our canvas, we gave the space a lighter feel with subtle floor and ceiling treatment. In order to address the changing program need, we incorporated a modern conference room with custom millwork to display student art work.
We worked closely with the owner and contractor to go from concept to move-in in 3 short months!
Completed in 2014
Existing Conditions Before Renovation
A former office building on the West End of Providence is being renovated into a contemporary church for the community.
Completed in 2015