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May 25, 2005
"Historic" Preservation Meets Museum Space
The Whitney pulls back a little from its plan -- go here, and be sure to click on the pictures.
Yet the artist Chuck Close, who sits on the Whitney board and attended yesterday's hearing, said he was "disappointed that we couldn't build the best building that we could have built."Well, Mr. Close, there are people who like Edward Durrell Stone, too (I hasten to add that I'm not one of them!). This is a triumph for silly salvationism. The Whitney is going to tear down one brownstone, shave off the back half of the other, and juxtapose the remnant with a glass Renzo Piano box entrance.He said he found it "outrageous" that 2 Columbus Circle, a building from 1965 designed by Edward Durell Stone, will be reconstructed without even a Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing, "while we're not allowed to take down one crummy brownstone."
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 25, 2005 5:35 PM