Another look at that two-wing building growing in Brooklyn

Yesterday morning, we noted the new building on the eastern horizon as seen from East Houston Street (above!).

We can now share what One South First at the Domino Sugar Refinery site in Brooklyn will actually look like once completed... @LESNYC shared this via Twitter...



Probably shouldn't give any architects any ideas...

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.

Sunrise where the Domino Sugar Refinery stood for nearly 135 years

EVG reader Daniel Root was walking in East River Park Saturday morning.

"Afterward I was thinking how I had never seen that sunrise [there] before and it occurred to me that the reason I hadn’t seen it is the now demolished and missed Domino Sugar Refinery was in that gap."

Indeed...


[Photo from 2013 by Bobby Williams]

The demolition of the circa-1880s building with the iconic Domino sign was complete in late December.

Some day the whole mega-project will look like...



Head to Curbed for more details about all this.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Bombing the Domino Sugar Refinery

At the Domino Sugar Refinery

Your view of the Domino Sugar Refinery from the Lower East Side might just look like this

Here are some photos from last year via Bobby Williams showing the Domino Sugar Refinery next to the Manhattan Bridge in Williamsburg ...



As you may know, developers plunked down (forked over?) $185 million to buy the site last summer.

Skipping ahead, the new renderings for the site were released over the weekend. Perhaps you saw them at Gothamist or Curbed.

If not, well — brace for impact.


[SHoP Architects via Gothamist]

Curbed has a lot more of the details. The whole thing should take about 10 years at a cost of $1.5 billion to make happen.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Bombing the Domino Sugar Refinery

At the Domino Sugar Refinery

The Domino Sugar Refinery gets a SMART addition

Last week we posted some photos courtesy of Luna Park on the epic bombing at the Domino Sugar Refinery...



There has been more activity north of the Williamsburg Bridge of late.... The following photo was sent to me by the The Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve (GFOEVG)...



The GFOEVG sent us to the above photo taken by Sabeth718.... The shot (and many many more amazing graffiti photos) can be found on Sabeth718's Flickr page. Access that here. (and thanks to Sabeth718 for permission to post.)

Previously on EV Grieve:
Bombing the Domino Sugar Refinery

Bombing the Domino Sugar Refinery

The Graffiti Friend of EV Grieve (GFOEVG) passed along a link from north of the Williamsburg Bridge... As The Street Spot noted this past Friday, the Domino Sugar Refinery was bombed last week in epic fashion...




Thanks to Luna Park for letting us repost these... She has more shots on her Flickr page.

At the Domino Sugar Refinery

By now, there are likely thousands of photos posted around the internets from the open house (factory?) at the Domino Sugar Refinery earlier today. (Every person I saw there had a camera.) So here are a few more shots. As you probably know, developers want to turn this iconic factory from the 1880s north of the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn into pricy condos and what not. Neighborhood activists wants to see the riverfront property preserved and redeveloped as affordable housing.
















(No one was allowed inside, of course. Still! Here's what it looks like from that vantage point.)