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“We’re taking something that has been dead, and bringing it back to life,” said Mr. Cloephil who criticized Stone’s design as representing a “moment in style,” but not a pivotal work. Elsewhere inside the Center for Architecture, placards described the building in its current state as Read More
City Council member Bill Perkins has taken the 2 Columbus Circle fray to the legislative chamber by introducing a bill that would require the Landmarks Preservation Commission to hold public hearings on alterations to any building the City Council thinks it should hold hearings about. All the council needs to do is get a majority Read More
Sherida E. Paulson, former chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (2001-03), wrote an Op Ed in July 30′s New York Times on the fate of 2 Columbus Circle, the vaguely Moorish-looking monolith designed by Edward Durrell Stone which is in danger of having its facade ripped off and replaced by a modernistic response to the Read More
While Tom Wolfe and his fellow 2 Columbus Circle advocates continue their fight with the landmarks commission, one of architect Edward Durell Stone’s renowned buildings has been spared.
In 1938, Mr. Stone designed the Long Island home for A. Conger Goodyear, the Museum of Modern Art’s first president. Mr. Goodyear was already well Read More
“Ladies and gentlemen of the commission, I hope somewhere, wherever you are, that your ears are itching to what has been said today,” exclaimed white-clad author and 2 Columbus Circle enthusiast Tom Wolfe.
Of course, the ladies and gentlemen of the Landmarks Preservation Commission were nowhere to be found. Yet, each commissioner’s name was Read More
Landmark West (which is hereby on notice that we’re not using the exclamation point that is a part of their name! the people have spoken!) is holding a “people’s hearing” this Thursday, starting at 1 p.m. at the General Society for Mechanics and Tradesmen Library (20 West 44th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues). Read More
