DOMINO SUGAR REFINERY
An industrial urban landmark
Like the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Industry City , the Domino Sugar Refinery will soon return to life as the nerve center of a new working waterfront . An industrial urban landmark constructed by Henry Havemeyer , the building long dominated both Brooklyn ’ s skyline and economy .
The structure was built to consolidate three functions inside three conjoined buildings — the filtering , panning , and finishing of sugar — that required the use of enormous equipment housed in cavernous , multistory spaces purposefully obscured by the repetitive punched arch windows in the masonry . Although these windows were misaligned across the four facades , together they give the entire structure a singular , monumental appearance , crowned by the muscular smokestack on the west elevation built out of radial brick .
In 2017 PAU started the design for adaptive reuse of the Refinery building , intended to be the crown jewel of the new mixed-use neighborhood , according to the master plan conceived by founder Vishaan Chakrabarti , complete with an activated mix of creative
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