NEW YORK | Domino Sugar | 535 + 530 + 518 + 450 FT | 53 + 51 + 43 + 42 FLOORS

[yankeesfan1000]

That looks amazing...

[streetscaper]

Second building in Domino Sugar megaproject to break ground next month; new renderings

Two Trees Management will break ground next month on 260 Kent Avenue at the corner of Grand Street and Kent Avenue, the second building to rise at the Domino Sugar Williamsburg megaproject site. Designed by COOKFOX Architects, the 462,000 square-foot, 42-story mixed-use tower on the site of the former sugar manufacturing facility will create “a prominent visual corridor that leads to the East River waterfront,” according to a press release.

The new building will offer 330 rental apartments, more than 20 percent of which will be affordable to low-income residents. The building’s 22-story commercial portion will include 150,000 square feet of office space; 13,000 square feet of retail will be located in the building podium.

...The new building’s distinctive façade design–inspired by the molecular pattern and forms of sugar crystals–is intended to connect it with the history of the site.

...When complete, the mixed-use five-building campus will offer about 2,800 apartments and about 500,000 square feet of commercial space.

Placeholder in the whole scheme:







Design:

[chris08876]

Credit: JC_Heights

[Jonovision]

Is that a copper cladding on the base of this one?

[streetscaper]

L1060814 by Steve, on Flickr

[pico44]

Foreground - good architecture

Background - bad architecture

[colemonkee]

^ Middle ground - mildly unsettling wall art

[pico44]

I like you man

[chris08876]

325 Kent is now leasing.

Teaser Site: https://www.325kent.com/?utm_source=...isting-320x240

Availability: https://www.325kent.com/availabilities

Floor Plans (PDF's)

#1: Studio: https://www.325kent.com/studio_floorplan.ed698353.pdf
#2: 1 Bedroom 1 Bath: https://www.325kent.com/1br_1ba_floorplan.9641176b.pdf
#3: 2 Bedroom 2 Bath: https://www.325kent.com/2br_2ba_floorplan.5551e1d3.pdf

[chris08876]

Credit: VanishingNY

[chris08876]

One down, more to come in this large masterplan.


Credit: JC_Heights

[The Best Forumer]

This shold be a nice addition.

[colemonkee]

Pretty good look. I wonder how this post-industrial style will age. Will people look at this as cool and ground-breaking in 20 years, or as cold and oppressive?

[pico44]

Originally Posted by colemonkee

Pretty good look. I wonder how this post-industrial style will age. Will people look at this as cool and ground-breaking in 20 years, or as cold and oppressive?

i don't really care about twenty-years-from-now guy. Good chance he's gonna dislike it. Maybe even hate. It's good for progress I suppose. I wonder what 50-years-from-now guy thinks. I think they'll like it. Cool, durable materials. Clean designs that does a good job of being of the moment without being derivative. Nice street presence.

[mrnyc]

^ you sir are on point.

agreed, you are always going to lose the battle with 20yr future guy. he is against you and with the new trend of the day, be it architecture, music, clothing, etc..

perhaps he will like something of yours, but its limited and hard to say what.

however, 50yr future guy is back in your pocket. especially for something like this development.

those space city jetsons buildings on sky stilts will just go up around it.

[chris08876]

Historic Domino Sugar Refinery’s Revised Redevelopment Plans Approved By Landmarks

The Landmark Preservation Commission has approved a new design for the Domino Sugar Factory Refinery building, which is being redeveloped by Two Trees Management Company, and designed by Vishaan Chakrabarti’s Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, aka PAU. The commission made no changes to the proposal, and Two Trees’ Managing Director David Lombino said “Thank you to the Landmarks Preservation Commission for engaging in a productive and thoughtful review, and for supporting this exciting new approach to making the Refinery building the centerpiece of the Domino redevelopment.”

PAU’s creation will result in a high-tech glass mass situated inside of the old refinery building. Open plan offices populate most of the floors, with enough room left between the brick wall and the massing for terraces made of steel grating to extend out to the arched windows.

The new proposal permeates the ideology of flexible usage and transparency in every way, and the public will be encouraged to make use of the property and associated green space.

Construction on the Domino redevelopment is already moving along, and completion is expected by the early 2020’s.

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[chris08876]

Two Trees in talks for construction loan at Domino Sugar site

Two Trees Management is looking for a $175 million construction loan from the state’s housing finance arm for one of the mixed-use buildings at the $3 billion Domino Sugar Factory site in Williamsburg.

The developer has applied for bond financing for the apartment-and-office building at 260 Kent Avenue, which is already under construction. The state’s Housing Finance Agency will consider the application during its meeting later this month on January 25.

“It is a priority for us to create mix of uses at Domino, and 260 Kent will bring both new residents and new workers to the neighborhood,” a Two Trees spokesperson told The Real Deal.

The 22-story office building will rise at the corner of Grand Street and Kent Avenue, with “360 degree views of Domino Park, the East River and the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines,” the spokesperson said. The the connected 42-story residential building will have 66 affordable units.

The total development cost is pegged at $309 million, and Two Trees would put in $134 million in equity, according to the developer’s application.

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[yankeesfan1000]

Crane up at 260 Kent Ave, building on the far left in the rendering :

[patriotizzy]

Are they actually building all those tall buildings? They look very skyline defining.

[10023]

Originally Posted by patriotizzy

Are they actually building all those tall buildings? They look very skyline defining.

There isn’t going to be much more of a skyline in Williamsburg. They can’t build up in the historic part.