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Green light for MAD renovation
Art in America, June-July, 2004
In April, a lawsuit attempting to block the sale of Two Columbus Circle to the Museum of Arts and Design was dismissed by a state supreme court judge in Manhattan. Three preservation groups had filed the suit to protect Edward Durell Stone's 1962 building, whose facade will be significantly altered in a renovation planned by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture [see "Front Page," June '03]. The scheme calls for removal of the white marble cladding and the distinctive porthole windows and upper loggia. They will be replaced with glass and white terra-cotta panels.
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Located near Central Park, the building was originally constructed to house the art collection of A&P heir Huntington Hartford. Landmarks West, the Historic Districts Council and the New York chapter of the modernist preservation group Docomomo challenged the city's sale of the structure on the grounds that an environmental review was deficient and that city and state agencies had exceeded their power in declaring the building unworthy of landmark designation. Construction is set to begin in early 2005.
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