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Domino Sugar plans draw criticism

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Preservationists criticized plans to redevelop Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar plant at a hearing before the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Five glass floors of apartments would be added above 12 original floors in a building built in 1884. The commission did not take a vote on the project. “The proposed glass box addition, plunked on top of the landmark, is simply too large and lacks the compositional organization and the arrangement of details that would relate it to the landmark,” said Lisa Kersavage of the Municipal Art Society. Frampton Tolbert, the Historic Districts Council’s deputy director, called the addition “architecturally incongruous.” 

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