The brick shell of the sugar refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront, a glass building grown inside it, the syrup tanks and gantry cranes in the park, the bridge and the skyline over the river.
The Havemeyer family's sugar refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront was rebuilt in brick after a fire in 1882, and at its peak it refined more sugar than any plant in the world. The refinery closed in 2004 and the city landmarked the building in 2007. Domino Park, designed by James Corner Field Operations, opened on the site in 2018 with the old syrup tanks and gantry cranes kept as relics.
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The 1880s brick refinery with its round arched windows and the great smokestack, the modern glass vault rising within the shell, the elevated walkway over the park, the salvaged syrup tanks and cranes, the Williamsburg Bridge. Mood: industrial gold. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.