Construction is nearing completion on One Domino Square, a two-tower residential complex at 8 South 4th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by Selldorf Architects and developed by Two Trees, the 55- and 39-story towers stand 550 and 450 feet tall and will yield a combined 399 rental apartments and 160 condominium units 346 Kent Construction is the general contractor for the property, which is alternatively addressed as 346 Kent Avenue , known as Site D in the Domino Sugar waterfront master plan from SHoP Architects and James Corner Field Operations, and is bound by The Refinery at Domino at 292 Kent Avenue to the north, Kent Avenue to the east, and River Street and Domino Park to the west.
Façade installation has reached the pinnacles of both towers since our last update in December, when the upper floors and bulkhead of the taller structure remained exposed. Since then, the tower crane was fully dismantled from this building and the scaffolding and black netting have come down across the multi-story podium, revealing the gray stone exterior at the base of the building. The only sections of the towers still awaiting installation of the white pearlescent façade panels are the gaps where the construction hoists remain attached.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The following photo highlights the pearlescent character of the porcelain façade paneling.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The following renderings show One Domino Square’s podium topped with a green roof and an outdoor swimming pool. The entire property will be surrounded by new tree-lined sidewalks.
346 Kent Avenue. Designed by Selldorf Architects
346 Kent Avenue. Designed by Selldorf Architects.
346 Kent Avenue. Designed by Selldorf Architects.
One Domino Square is slated to finish construction in April.
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Tall cubes of sugar!
These towers are a travesty. Completely soulless and uninspired in every imaginable way. Shameful design should have hired a real architect.
This is awesome. Great to see a once industrial wasteland be transformed into a hip, cool, modern, and green place. Hopefully this type of development continues inland, and isn’t just limited to the waterfront.
Williamsburg is massively developed what do you mean? You wanna rip up all the beautiful historic buildings and put up more condos nobody can afford?
Yes – more greenery, more modern towers, less ugly siding buildings and gritty areas.
Sounds like youre talking about Greenpoint, not Williamsburg bud
Agreed!
Trendy-yuppies living off their daddy’s trust fund aren’t hip or cool their posers at best we call them flakes..
Really bad — and this is such an exceptional site. Ms. Selldorf, what happened?
Could be better, could be worse. I wish these taller towers swapped places with the keyhole tower on the north side of the refinery ruin.
Some of you people are nuts, these towers are beautiful. Hilarious how some would prefer some trendy architectural gimmick over a fine example of staid formalism like these. To each their own I guess.
I’m usually against most of the folks here who seem to have fetishes for ANY old brick buildings but I gotta say this high-rise is indeed very boring
We like brick buildings from up to the early 1940s. I don’t think many people glamorize the post war commieblock stuff.
Nothing to do with the material at all, the design is lazy and horribly derivative it brings absolutely nothing new or of interest to the table, which for such a prime site is a shame.
Quite literally some buildings… Looks quality tho.
I like brick buildings and find some old industrial buildings, especially in the UK, very attractive. Why the Domino factory was preserved is a mystery to me. It is no De Vinne Press Building. Now we have what seems like the blob that ate the sugar factory.
I do not find the new buildings bad, indeed, the lattice effect recalls the nearby bridge. The facing material seems interesting.
Nobody cares about England.. France, Germany and Italy are far more impressive architecturally
They have the exact same buildings in Jersey City.
Yes, and in every other major city in the entire country
I thk they look ok.. Williamsburg is a great place to raise your family, if anyone of these people where here 30 plus years ago, they whould have never survived, ive lived here since 1979, love the burg..