2 Columbus Circle

2 Columbus Circle is a modernist building designed by Edward Durrell Stone at 2 Columbus Circle in New York City.

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Modernist - Edward Durrell Stone - 2 Columbus Circle - New York City

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It is slated to be radically altered and occupied by the Museum of Art and Design, as of 2005. Because of this, it is listed as one of the World Monuments Fund's "100 Most Endangered Sites for 2006." In 2004, the National Trust for Historic Preservation called it one of America's "11 Most Endangered Historic Places."

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Museum of Art and Design - As of 2005 - World Monuments Fund

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It is often called "The Lollipop Building" in reference to a mocking review by architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable in which she called it a "die-cut Venetian palazzo on lollipops." (Although, three decades later that she admitted that she gets "a little lift, a sense of pleasure" when she walks past it.)

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2 Columbus Circle rises 12 stories from a small, trapezoidal lot on the south side of Columbus Circle in Manhattan. It is a marble-clad building with Venetian motifs and a curved façade. It has filigreelike portholes and windows that run along an upper loggia at its top stories. It originally housed the Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art.

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Columbus Circle - Manhattan - Loggia

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