Light-Drenched Offices Fill the Shell of Domino Sugar

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 street view [Light-Drenched Offices Fill the Shell of Domino Sugar]( A refinery with a dirty past, spotlessly reimagined. Photo: Christopher Payne Domino: I master, I rule, I subjugate. The imperial brand name affixed above the Williamsburg waterfront (and emblazoned on a billion packages of sugar) is candid about its past and the corporate family that created it. But the new Domino Refinery, a lucid loaf of an office building rising out of its flaking crust, carries another message, best expressed in plain English: Not Anymore. The concept is simple: a glass nave tucked inside a 19th-century temple of industry, its rounded, see-through vault rising above the roofline. A great work of architecture — and that’s what this is — mediates between history and future, between a past we value without wishing to bring it back and a horizon we can’t map yet want to be ready for. Here, the immense industrial apparatus of sweetness has given way to a landscape of leisure: a park, a playground, a handful of apartment towers, and now, at the center of it all, a softer kind of workplace. The names of the previous overlords, Havemeyer and Elder, endure on the factory they built. The current ones — the Walentas family, which runs the real-estate company Two Trees — keep a more modest profile. But they too are pumping in money and placing a bet on the enduring appeal of pleasure. [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [It’s Giving Halston Evoking “the spirit of a bygone hedonism” in a sensible mid-century West Side co-op.]( By Wendy Goodman [Beverly’s Is Making It Permanent Beverly Nguyen’s roaming homewares pop-up signed a lease at 27 Orchard.]( By Clio Chang [This Week’s Worth-It New York City Listings Featuring a bevy of really excellent lofts.]( By Nora DeLigter [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved