Curtain wall installation is shaping up on 65 Private Drive, a 40-story residential tower and the tallest component in the four-tower Calyer Place master plan from Cooper Robertson & Partners in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Designed by SLCE Architects and developed by M&H Realty, the 439-foot-tall structure stands at the intersection of West and Oak Streets along the East River.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 2043 Webster Avenue in Fordham Heights, The Bronx. Located between East 178th Street and East 180th Street, the lot is near the Tremont Avenue subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. Arjan Gjushi is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed to expand a two-story structure into a six-story mixed-use building at 7616 Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Located between 76th Street and 77th Street, the interior lot is within walking distance of the Kings Highway subway station, serviced by the N train. Hanjun Bai of H&Z Building Corp. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction is rising on the The Refinery, a commercial conversion and expansion of the 140-year-old Domino Sugar Refinery at 292 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) and developed by Two Trees, the $250 million project will convert the former manufacturing plant into a modern office complex while preserving the structure’s historic brick façade, arched windows, and chimney. The Refinery will stand 235 feet tall and feature a new 27,000-square-foot barrel-vaulted glass dome for a penthouse office space, as well as fully rebuilt interiors by Dencityworks and Bonetti/Kozerski, new landscaping and outdoor seating surrounding the ground floor, and reworked Domino Sugar signage above the roofline. The development is the centerpiece of the Domino Sugar master plan by SHoP Architects and James Corner Field Operations and is located to the west of Kent Avenue between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets.
Demolition permits have been filed for a two-story commercial building at 537 West 59th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The 7,560-square-foot lot is owned by Project Renewal, a non-profit that offers housing and services for the homeless.
