“Strangely Enchanting” Repurposed Domino Sugar Factory Completes With KONE VT

Various outlets, including the New York Post, recently reported that the Refinery at Domino, a 15-story, 460,000-ft² office building that repurposes the 167-year-old Domino Sugar factory on the waterfront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is now complete. KONE tells ELEVATOR WORLD the structure is served by seven MonoSpace^® 700 and one MiniSpace^TM elevators, along with the KONE Destination destination-dispatch system. The Post describes the US$150 million property, developed by Two Trees and designed by Vishaan Chakrabarti of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism, as perhaps the world’s “most unlikely, strangely enchanting venue from which to earn a living or make a fortune.” It comprises a glass box set inside the weathered brick façade of the old factory, with its 548 arched, “churchlike” windows, as well as a glass-dome penthouse at the top called Skylight that will serve as an event venue and gathering spot for employees.