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Critique of the New Museum of Arts and Design Building: Two Buildings in One

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August 18, 2008
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New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger provides a dual critique of the Museum of Arts and Design’s new home at 2 Columbus Circle. From the outside, he laments that the renovated structure resembles too closely the building it replaced, the nearly windowless building once called the “Lollipop Building.” From the inside however, the building, which once housed Huntington Hartford’s largely unsuccessful Gallery of Modern Art, has been transformed into a completely new space, which Goldberger calls “functional, logical, and pleasant to be in.”