by Aaron Simon 
Renderings of two additional Greenpoint Landing mixed-use towers with 745 rental units (30 percent ‘affordable’) were released today resembling a “ziggurat and its inverse,” Curbed reports.
This is Brooklyn’s first development from the architectural firm OMA (founded by the esteemed Rem Koolhaas), who is also behind the McKinsey & Company Hong Kong office, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and the redevelopment of the Miami Beach Convention Center, among dozens…
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These glorified shitboxes will blot out the sun, this offiically marks “the end” for northern greenpoint.
I tell you if I lived on the top floors of that inverted building, I would have nightmares of it falling down or over and could never sleep.
WoW ! I was born in 1956 & grew up on DuPont St.
I would LOVE TO SEE THESE BUILDINGS at completion…..