Wednesday, June 5, 2019

A two-wing building grows in Brooklyn



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.

13 comments:

noble neolani said...

looks like it's flipping the bird at us.

dwg said...

I wonder if sugar crystals exist as monstrous individual aberrations?

Anonymous said...

It looks like a giant pair of pants.

Anonymous said...

They should just build the entire robot already.

Anonymous said...

White sugar, not good for you. It's above us now...

Anonymous said...

Looks like it's disintegrating already. Only reason to live there would be to not have to look at it.

This era is going to be remembered as the era of non-contextual, ultra-ugly, brain-dead, glass architecture in NYC.

Anonymous said...

Good thing they told us what it's supposed to be.

DrGecko said...

Without an explanation, I would have thought it was some shoddily built Soviet-era construction in provincial Russia.

All totalitarian architecture looks alike.

Anonymous said...

I went to Domino Park last weekend, thing is massive. I'm guessing you can see Pennsylvania from the top floors.

Giovanni said...

Hopefully someone will buy the air rights and build another building inside that hole.

Anonymous said...

Now, the design makes sense. Little sugar cubes. I like it.

Anonymous said...

What 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.

Anonymous said...

It reminds me of The Standard High Line, it's actually quite an interesting design. It also looks like something from Final Fantasy VII...