Still Waiting

2 Columbus Circle has sported its new cladding of glazed terra cotta panels (pictured above, catching the glow of the setting sun) and glass for a little while now. Not much else seems to have changed in the transformation from Edward Durell Stone Venetian to Brad Cloepfil modern. The lobby (pictured below) also does not seem much farther along then it was last fall.

Let’s hope things are ready for the September 2008 opening mentioned on the museum’s website. The site also has a slide show and video of the re-cladding project called 2 Columbus Circle From Then ’til Now. It’s got a great Our City–On The Move! soundtrack and is worth watching to see the demolition workers going to town on the defenseless marble facade and lace-like portholes that once climbed the sides of the building.

Two renderings of the new museum above.