Domino Sugar Factory Proposed Addition Revealed
With developer CPC and architects Beyer Blinder Belle beginning to make the rounds to sell their proposal for modifications to the now-landmarked refinery building of the Domino Sugar Factory, it was only a matter of time before the closely-guarded renderings came to light. We crammed into the Community Board 1 headquarters last night with about…
With developer CPC and architects Beyer Blinder Belle beginning to make the rounds to sell their proposal for modifications to the now-landmarked refinery building of the Domino Sugar Factory, it was only a matter of time before the closely-guarded renderings came to light. We crammed into the Community Board 1 headquarters last night with about 15-20 other people to catch the powerpoint presentation and came away with a few dozen photos. The money shots are above—the five-story glass addition to the roof of the refinery. The big-picture plan for the building includes 30,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor, community use space on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors, and residential from the 5th floor up. (No pedestrian bridges though!) The residential portion will have a courtyard hollowed out in the middle of the building. Two other high-level stats for the project as a whole: 2,200 residential units and, get this, 1,550 underground parking spaces. The developers had originally hoped to have begun the ULURP process by February but it’s now looking more like April or May.
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Why so much parking? That’s totally insane.
11:43 – not brick and glass – what all wood with no windows? all steel and no glass. all glass?
aren’t tons of NY buildings including one’s from a hundred years ago brick and glass?
what is that you want?
“Does anyone not with a stick up their ass want to talk about these profound changes to our city??”
The commenter at 10:32 gave it a shot, and was instantly mocked for being an “out of work architect.” Anyway, I don’t mind the scale, particularly; that’s a pretty desolate strip of Williamsburg. I don’t even mind the addition to the refinery, really. But why do the new towers have the brick/glass thing? It’s the kind of lazy new/old hybrid architecture that’s neither contextual nor interesting, but is designed to do nothing but shut up the preservationists and the developers. And in this case, it’s pretty ugly too.
Looks like stale, muddled crap. With a site that large can’t anyone do something original that will genuinely call out to the world, “This is Brooklyn” not what I see as “Welcome to shittown”
my 2 cents
THIS is an amazing project. You people are retarded to be so negative!
Jeez, a desolate waterfront is about to explode with people and community and public space.
Does anyone not with a stick up their ass want to talk about these profound changes to our city??
Williamsburg is going to be the most, and listen to me hear, valuable property in Brooklyn.
It will be the hipper extension of Manhattan. And, it will definitely be more valuable space than scary smelly Dumbo which manages to disgust with 2 bridges and the BQE and a horrendous housing project.
If you can get into Williamsburg right now around $650K, you are going to make shit loads down the road while living in NYC’s best hood for restaurants, night life and shopping.
This is going to be it people.
Looks depressing!!
I came to a realization about Brownstowner and how the majority of the posters are negative. Practicing the same thinking as lets say a FOX news, they culture on this site is negative. It all starts from the writer(s) on this site. The headlines and the general feeling is negative. Sensationalism attracts more crowds then positive or intellectual pieces.
I notice the exact same issues on other blogs but the majority of their post are positive or at least constructive criticism. But on here he get anger or smart ass remarks.
Just a a observation
my advice to those considering overpaying for a condo in williamsburg this year: wait – you’ll be glad you did…
Truly hideous. Why is new york architecture such shit????? Why is Trump horrificness basically the standard for new development?