As you've likely noticed in recently months on East Houston (or Second Street or Third Street...) looking toward the east... something growing on the skyline...
The photos here from East Houston and Attorney show One South First at 260 Kent Ave., now Williamsburg's tallest building, which recently topped out at 42 floors at the Domino Sugar Refinery site.
And one day it will look like this ...
[Rendering via Cookfox]
The façade by Cookfox is supposed to be reminiscent of a stack of sugar crystals.
looks like it's flipping the bird at us.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if sugar crystals exist as monstrous individual aberrations?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a giant pair of pants.
ReplyDeleteThey should just build the entire robot already.
ReplyDeleteWhite sugar, not good for you. It's above us now...
ReplyDeleteLooks like it's disintegrating already. Only reason to live there would be to not have to look at it.
ReplyDeleteThis era is going to be remembered as the era of non-contextual, ultra-ugly, brain-dead, glass architecture in NYC.
Good thing they told us what it's supposed to be.
ReplyDeleteWithout an explanation, I would have thought it was some shoddily built Soviet-era construction in provincial Russia.
ReplyDeleteAll totalitarian architecture looks alike.
I went to Domino Park last weekend, thing is massive. I'm guessing you can see Pennsylvania from the top floors.
ReplyDeleteHopefully someone will buy the air rights and build another building inside that hole.
ReplyDeleteNow, the design makes sense. Little sugar cubes. I like it.
ReplyDeleteWhat an ugly monstrosity of a building that is...now I have to look at it every time I look across the East River into Brooklyn.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of The Standard High Line, it's actually quite an interesting design. It also looks like something from Final Fantasy VII...
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