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	2 Columbus Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		2 Columbus Circle is a small, trapezoidal lot on the south side of Columbus Circle in Manhattan.
		Fairleigh Dickinson University receives 2 Columbus Circle as a gift from Hartford and operates it as the New York Cultural Center.
		The City of New York accepts 2 Columbus Circle and installs the headquarters for the Department of Cultural Affairs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2_Columbus_Circle (1767 words)

	Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Columbus was to be made "Admiral of the Ocean Sea", and granted an inheritable governorship to the new territories he would reach, as well as a portion of all profits.
		Columbus returned to Hispaniola on August 19 to find that many of the Spanish settlers of the new colony were discontent, having been misled by Columbus about the supposedly bountiful riches of the new world.
		In the meantime, Columbus, in a desperate effort to induce the natives to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse, using astronomic tables made by Rabbi Avraham Zacuto of Spain.
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Christopher_Columbus (4856 words)

	Columbus Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Columbus Circle is a major landmark and point of attraction in New York City.
		The traffic circle was designed by William P. Eno, a businessman who pioneered many early innovations in road safety and traffic control, as part of Frederick Law Olmsted's vision for the park, which included a circle at its Eighth Avenue entrance.
		Named for Christopher Columbus, it encircles a monument erected as part of New York's 1892 commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Columbus_Circle (512 words)

	2 Columbus Circle And The Need To Preserve Preservation (Gotham Gazette. November 29, 2004)
		Among the host of reasons for communities' concern is the commission’s failure to hold public hearings on such buildings as 2 Columbus Circle and St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Harlem, both imminently threatened with destruction or a destructive alteration.
		Although 2 Columbus Circle is by no means the only source of preservationists’ concern (why else would dozens of groups in communities as varied as St. George in Staten Island and the Upper East Side of Manhattan have leapt to endorse the coalition's report?), it provides a useful case study.
		Two Columbus Circle, the former Gallery of Modern Art built in 1964 to house Huntington Hartford’s art collection, was included along with the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
	www.gothamgazette.com /article/feature-commentary/20041125/202/1197 (1597 words)

	Rally and Press Conference to preserve 2 Columbus Circle
		Then again, the building at 2 Columbus Circle, with its sleek, white Vermont marble skin, concave facade and engraved edges, is also referred to as a "gem" by preservationists, museum curators and elected officials.
		Two Columbus Circle was one of the earliest reactions to the high, modernist structures being built out of steel and glass at the time, according to accounts.
		She notes that 2 Columbus Circle was built as a museum and now there's an opportunity to have a world-class museum move in.
	www.tenant.net /pipermail/hkonline/1998-December/000125.html (1707 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		What is conspicuously missing from the orchestrated hysteria that has replaced rational debate about 2 Columbus Circle is any desire to see or understand the plans for the building's conversion before going into attack mode.
		I have studied the design carefully, and I have also visited Columbus Circle, which is in the process of a long-delayed rebuilding and revitalization.
		The city's most notorious traffic circle, a survival challenge of Jersey barriers, is coming into focus, and the surprise is that it is going to be wonderful.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la?id=110004517 (1754 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - 2 Columbus Circle Renovation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The prospect from the top floor of 2 Columbus Circle may be clear as far as the eye can see, but the building's future is still murky.
		The National Trust urges the owners of 2 Columbus Circle, currently the City of New York, but soon to be the Museum of Arts and Design, to develop a restoration plan for the building that respects its integrity as a modernist masterpiece and celebrates its unique form and design.
		The redesign of 2 Columbus Circle isn't anything special, probably average at best which is probably the biggest reason for the opposition and controversy.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=82248 (3732 words)

	grubbykid.com .:. words .:. 2 Columbus Circle News
		2 Columbus Circle is at the center of the tussle between the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) who want to renovate and use the building for a new museum, and preservation groups who want to save the facade of the idiosyncratic building.
		Their point of contention is that LPC will not even schedule a public hearing on the matter of 2 Columbus Circle to inquire on whether or not to Landmark the building, and will not hold a hearing due to wrong or unlawful means.
		In a message dated May 2, 2003, that accompanied a letter from someone expressing opposition to the plan for 2 Columbus Circle, Mr.
	words.grubbykid.com /2005/06/22/2_columbus_circle_news.html (617 words)

	America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		That’s the good news; the bad news is that the design proposed for the new use would strip 2 Columbus Circle of its architectural integrity, and since it is not protected by New York’s preservation ordinance, these changes could be made without any kind of preservation review.
		This means that unless the new owner can be persuaded of the building’s significance, sweeping architectural changes could rob 2 Columbus Circle of its distinctive character and rob America of an engagingly quirky icon of the recent past.
		The destruction of 2 Columbus Circle's original façade would mean the loss of a unique chapter of America's story.
	www.nationaltrust.org /11Most/2004/2_columbus_circle.html (423 words)

	A.L. Huxtable vs. Tom Wolfe By Timothy Noah
		2 Columbus Circle's best-known detractor weighs in on its preservation.
		Three months ago, Chatterbox challenged Tom Wolfe to back up his preservationist argument for Manhattan's 2 Columbus Circle, the hideous Moorish tomb built by Edward Durrell Stone in 1964, by arguing that it was beautiful.
		Chatterbox's point was that Wolfe admired the building—which he was trying to rescue from a planned radical remodeling by its new owner, the Museum of Arts and Design—purely on theoretical grounds.
	www.slate.com /id/2093606 (810 words)

	nycedc.com-News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Columbus Centre, currently under construction, is a planned 2.5-million-square-foot commercial development which will replace the former New York Coliseum and 10 Columbus Circle office tower.
		Columbus Centre will consist of the headquarters for Time Warner AOL, a luxury hotel and condominiums, retail space, and an auditorium for Jazz at Lincoln Center.
		2 Columbus Circle is part of the commercial core in midtown Manhattan.
	www.newyorkbiz.com /About_Us/getPressReleasePreview2000_detail15.htm (424 words)

	felixsalmon.com: — The BBC and Brutalism
		I certainly think that 2 Columbus Circle is prettier than dozens upon dozens of other designated landmarks -- like the Socony-Mobil Building (E. 42nd St., diagonally across from the Hyatt), a building that was designated a landmark during the very period that supporters of 2 Columbus Circle were lobbying to have it declared a landmark.
		Two Columbus Circle was not an abandoned building that no one showed an interest in and for which no other use could be found.
		2 Columbus Circle was given to the City and used as an office building (for agencies like the Convention and Visitors Bureau) -- a use for which it was not really designed -- for about 20 years.
	www.felixsalmon.com /000462.html (4458 words)

	Tom Wolfe's Favorite Ugly Building By Timothy Noah
		13, Wolfe argues that 2 Columbus Circle must be spared a planned radical remodeling because it represents an early, bold rebellion against the austere strictures of the International Style that had dominated American architecture since World War II.
		Whether that's true or not, 2 Columbus Circle was certainly a departure for Stone, whose previous buildings included New York's rigorously modernist Museum of Modern Art.
		The student of architecture might wish to go over to Columbus Circle and take a look at the virtuosity of this extraordinary interplay of positive and negative space before it is destroyed.
	www.slate.com /id/2089958 (1408 words)

	New York Architecture Images- 2 Columbus Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		She wrote that the decision not to consider 2 Columbus Circle reflected "the professional judgment of the 19 people" who had been on the commission since 1996.
		The move to 2 Columbus Circle is planned for the museum's 50th anniversary in 2006 and will increase its exhibition space fourfold, according to museum director Holly Hotchner.
		Stone was a major figure in American architecture, and his Columbus Circle building, completed in 1965, is among a handful of works that represent a turning point in his career, when he rejected some of the tenets of late Modernism in favor of a more overt historicism.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /MID/MID095.htm (14550 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - Landmark 2 Columbus Circle? No (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Designed by Edward Durrell Stone in 1964 and considered a folly at the time, the building is a vacant presence in the newly invigorated Columbus Circle neighborhood.
		The building at 2 Columbus Circle was considered an aberration, which the American Institute of Architects' "AIA Guide to New York City" describes as a "white marble confection with vaguely Middle Eastern motifs."
		If MAD does not proceed with its plans, then 2 Columbus Circle will continue in its dormant, lifeless existence, waiting for a viable use that has eluded it all these years.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/col/v-pfriendly/story/341097p-291241c.html (395 words)

	Recent Past Preservation Network
		In the same breath as he condemns the Ground Zero planning process, Muschamp denounces the Landmarks Commission's failure to act on 2 Columbus Circle: "The refusal of the New York City Landmarks Commission to hold hearings on the future of 2 Columbus Circle is a shocking dereliction of public duty.
		The supporters of preserving 2 Columbus Circle are far from the "small, vocal minority" characterized in some reports.
		The Preservation League recognized the threat to 2 Columbus Circle through the proposed inappropriate alterations and called the building "a milestone in the Modern Architecture movement" as "one of the first post-modern building designs." To view the full 2003 Seven to Save list visit the Preservation League's website at www.preservenys.org/seventosave2003.htm.
	www.recentpast.org /types/skyscraper/2columbus (2939 words)

	2 Columbus Circle
		This summer the city agreed to sell 2 Columbus Circle, designed in 1965 by Edward Durell Stone as Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art to the American Craft Museum.
		The view of 2 Columbus Circle from the 35th floor of the new Mandarin Oriental New York Hotel.
		The view of Columbus Circle from One Central Park condominiums.
	www.wirednewyork.com /real_estate/2columbus (317 words)

	2 Columbus Circle Redesign - Wired New York Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Evoking both loom and kiln, the Museum of Arts and Design plans to reclad 2 Columbus Circle — an abandoned work of romantic modernism that has irritated and amused New Yorkers for 39 years — in a scrim of bright terra cotta.
		The redesign, by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, was presented yesterday to the City Planning Commission, whose approval is required for the sale of 2 Columbus Circle, a city-owned building.
		In my opinion, 2 Columbus Circle marks a milestone in architecture; it was essentially the first instance of deviation from the Internationalist mantra in a major building.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3583 (1605 words)

	felixsalmon.com: — 2 Columbus Circle
		And on the op-ed page, we're subjected to 2,300 barely-coherent words by Tom Wolfe on the subject of 2 Columbus Circle, complete with a note mentioning that this screed is only "the first of two installments".
		The point of the op-ed, one assumes, is for Wolfe to throw his weight behind the preservationists seeking to restore Edward Durell Stone's 2 Columbus Circle and keep it more or less as is, albeit both occupied and safe – neither of which it is at the moment.
		The impending destruction of 2 Columbus Circle is indeed a tragedy of immense proportions.
	www.felixsalmon.com /000199.php (3276 words)

	The Case of 2 Columbus Circle - New York Times
		The building at 2 Columbus Circle is already an architectural monument, the work of a major architect, whether the commission likes it or not.
		Stone created at least two grand irruptions in the familiar pattern: 2 Columbus Circle and his house at 130 East 64th Street, which was protected by the landmarks commission when Stone's widow tried to tear down its facade - a striking white concrete grille in a row of conventional town houses.
		The point of preservation, as the landmarks commission once understood, is to protect the complexity of the past, not to iron it out.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/29/opinion/29wed3.html?ex=1277697600&en=72c345c6511c9320&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (601 words)

	Gothamist: Goodbye, Quirky 2 Columbus Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A judge has allowed the sale and redesign of 2 Columbus Circle, the bizarro building increasingly dwarfed by sleek skyscrapers.
		Simply based on how weird and wacky it is, Gothamist would like it to stay as is. Architect Brad Cloepfil, commissioned with the redesign, has complained that 2 Columbus Circle looks like a "telephone transformer station", but as we love power substations and the like, we dig it.
		While I hate the rampant demolition of perfectly good buildings for flimsy contemporary design, 2 Columbus Circle just doesn't work as a building the way it is, only as a piece of urban scenography.
	gothamist.com /archives/2005/02/25/goodbye_quirky_2_columbus_circle.php (2532 words)

	Landmark West!
		The seats in the large Council Chambers were filled with frustrated preservationists from every borough, the vast majority of whom testified in support of this legislation to strengthen New York's Landmarks Law and expand the ability of the public to participate in the designation hearing process.
		New York Times runs editorial stating that “ dooming [2 Columbus Circle] without a hearing is an enormous mistake, one that seriously erodes the Landmarks Preservation Commission's purpose and whatever political independence it has managed to attain since it was first created.” Department of Buildings approves permit to remove building’s façade.
		Executive Director Kate Wood, "2 Columbus Circle and the Need to Preserve Preservation." New York City Council holds second oversight hearing on the administrative practices of the LPC.
	www.landmarkwest.org /advocacy/ad_02/2columbuscircle.html (2289 words)

	Curbed: 2 Columbus Circle ShameCam
		The phallic brutal steel and glass building surrounding 2 Columbus Circle, produces too much anxiety and depression especially since 9/11.
		2 Columbus Circle looks like something the Stasi took people in for questioning, and never let them back out.
		2 Columbus Circle looks like something the Stasi took people in for questioning and then never let them back out.
	www.curbed.com /archives/2005/11/11/2_columbus_circle_shamecam.php (568 words)

	New York City.com : People : walton : Readers blab about 2 Columbus Circle
		Two Columbus Circle was doomed when the former Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable dismissed it as the "lollipop" building.
		An uncomfortable, neoclassical presence that ruins Columbus Circle, the lollipop building was designed as an attack on Modern architecture to house an art collection that was an attack on modern art.
		Two Columbus Circle is no positive testament to the legacy of Stone, who was a great Modernist early in his career, and we can only hope that Cloepfil's design will be a great improvement.
	nyc.com /people/walton/blog/2488/Readers_blab_about_2_Columbus_Circle (415 words)

	Plots & Plans: The unofficial landmark rape of 2 Columbus Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The building is in the lee of the Columbus Center, twin-towered, mixed-use project nearing completion just to the west on Columbus Circle.
		Tom Wolfe, left, the noted writer, and Robert A. Stern, right, the noted architect and architectural historian, were the main speakers at a July 14th, 2005 "People's Meeting" to protest the continued failure of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission to calendar a public hearing on 2 Columbus Circle.
		On July 14, 2005, a public meeting was held at the General Society for Mechanics and Tradesman Library in midtown to protest the continued refusal of the landmarks commission to hold a hearing on the building.
	www.thecityreview.com /hhart.html (1748 words)

	Gothamist: Endangered: 2 Columbus Circle
		The National Historical Trust announced the eleven most endangered historic places in America and one of them was in New York: 2 Columbus Circle, that weird looking building south of Columbus Circle.
		I think 2 Columbus Cirlce is an attractive building in its own right and a very urbane addition to Columbus Circle.
		I find 2 Columbus Circle, in contrast, to be very easy to like -- especially in comparison to many, many other buildings in quirky styles that have been landmarked in addition to old Jeff.
	www.gothamist.com /archives/2004/05/25/endangered_2_columbus_circle.php (802 words)

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