NEW YORK | Domino Sugar | 535 + 530 + 518 + 450 FT | 53 + 51 + 43 + 42 FLOORS
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The colors look so weird but the massing looks so awesome!
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Looks like the projects. Please no.
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Exactly right. The massing is really really great, but Im afraid that if they use cheap concrete faux-brick paneling, it will look bad regardless. Materials are--as always--key. |
This was also designed By Rafael Viñoly
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I really don't like keeping the domino plant in this development. I know it's a nod to the heritage of Bburg, etc, etc. But I think a incredibly modern center piece to this development would be more fitting.
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It's a pity they didn't turn the plant into some cultural facility or retail center rather than condos. It is too interesting a building to not be open to the public.
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For being so iconic, the Domino Sugar factory building is currently so neglected and vandalized.
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Compilation article I did on Domino and the other two large projects set to transform the Wburg skyline. :)
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There's always a group with an alternative plan for development in New York.
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My favorite part of these community group plans are how woefully out of touch they are with economic reality. Thats what comes from living in rent control apartments for decades--a complete and utter lack of understanding that there are people out there who actually have to pay money to make this city work and grow. An arts center that will pay for itself? Ha! And who is going to pay for the demolition and parkland development? Squirrels have a better grasp of finance than these idiots. I was thinking of this project recently and how amazing it would be if the towers were clad in corten steel. I doubt that would happen but if so, it would become one of the better projects in the entire city. |
What would really be good is a "signature" tower behind the factory building, something that plays fof the bridge. That won't happen, but we'll see how this design plays out when we see the materials.
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Either way it will look good at night. I for one will be glad to see the skyline grow on the East side of the river. I'd love to see a skyline stretch from Downtown Brooklyn to the riverfront of Astoria. |
This has been reported as being off and on again recently (supposedly still on), but here's a look inside the abandoned factory...
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News of the closing from NY Times, via...http://www.nyc-architecture.com/WBG/wbg025.htm
Familiar Domino Sugar Refinery Will Shut Much of Its Operation By DIANE CARDWELL August 21, 2003 Quote:
Newsday, via...http://www.nyc-architecture.com/WBG/wbg025.htm Sugar Plant Closes After 148 Years By LARRY McSHANE January 29, 2004 Quote:
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Why not make a museum out of it as London did with the Tate Modern.
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