The New Domino / Rafael Viñoly Architects
Earlier last week, the City Council of New York City decided to move forward with Rafael Viñoly Architects’ master plan for the New Domino in Brooklyn. While the historic sugar refinery complex, with its familiar yellow signage, has achieved landmark status and will be preserved, the 11.2 acre-site will be outfitted with 2,200 new apartments – 660 of which are affordable housing – and four acres of public park space including a riverfront esplanade along the East River in Brooklyn.
More about the master plan after the break.
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The plan, which Viñoly has been developing since 2005 and will break ground in 2011, transforms the industrial complex into a modular, mixed-use and residential development that emphasizes open space and public access to the river. The new apartment buildings will flank the historic refinery buildings, and the landmarked complex will be adapted for new residential, commercial and cultural uses.
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The apartments, modular in design, will be similar in plan, yet extruded to different heights. Lower buildings sit near the surrounding neighborhoods, and higher buildings are located further inland. The buildings are outfitted with green roofs to control stormwater runoff and diminish the “heat island” effect. Careful attention was paid to the placement of the residences in order to maintain visual corridors and pedestrian access between the Brooklyn community and the waterfront.
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The plan takes full advantage of the waterfront by incorporating a public esplanade that connects the new development with the preexisting public spaces in the community. For the first time in 150 years, residents will be able to enjoy the perfect views the waterfront offers of Manhattan, the Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Bridges, and the New York Harbor.
More projects by Viñoly on AD here.
Please,Please Please, stop this project. I am an architect and live in the neighborhood and this is a horrible idea. This developer and so called architect will destroy the waterfront of Williamsburg. We must not let this happen.
Agree! ^^^ This is an atrocity! Why are we spreading the Disney-fication of Manhattan into the Burroughs??!! Stop the Madness!
At least Disney-ification is usually accompanied by a degree of spectacle….. this just looks cold and dull. At least put some balloons in the images.
Gentrification is making its way… But please not like that!!
So called architect? Vinoly? First I can’t judge so quickly the project on four narrow CG’s. If i can agree this doesn’t look like an exciting neighborhood shift, at least, I invite you to visit the Tokyo international forum which is one of the smartest building design i’ve ever seen, or the stunning Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
I agree on the other hand this project and Battersea development are not his most exciting works… Maybe he should drop urban refurbishment projects.
I found more pics here by the way: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/8715/rafael-vinoly-architects-the-new-domino.html
Wow, even worse after seeing those pics!
high density is high.
and NEVER works well….
NY should call office like KCAP.
Nice site to earn a lot of money. If these towers were made blue and glassy, maybe the factory could hold his colossal appearance.
Horrible! this architect just wants to get rich. In his way he’s destroying some of the urban places with more character and atmosphere, at Battersea in London is even worse: he’s killing a landmark, now on one of most authentic and industrial of Brooklyn. If there’s some way to help stop Domino or Battersea Vigñoli’s please let me know.
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