Visual Art How to Spell Lollypops, and Other Huxtablisms
posted by on September 25 at 16:11 PM
The Los Angeles Times this week inaugurated its blog Culture Monster, and in today’s entry by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, he contends not only with Brad Cloepfil’s renovated “lollypop” building in Columbus Circle—but also with Ada Louise Huxtable’s 1964 monument of criticism, written on the occasion of the original Columbus Circle building by Edward Durell Stone.
Huxtable has yet to weigh in on the new building in the Wall Street Journal…
Jen, what a wonderful article. Thanks for the link.
That glass slash across the front of the building is ghastly. But then, a cut to its face is fine by me...I loved the old Stone building and used to visit it often when I lived in NYC, wayyyyyy back in the day.
The new one doesn't really do it for me.
Hey that's in my neighborhood! I must say I feel exactly the opposite of @1...
I found the old building cold, imposing, and unfriendly. The pictures don't do justice to the newly unveiled incarnation. It's rather beautiful in person, with interesting plays on reflection and texture. I say wait until you see it to judge it :)
@1, thanks for assuming I'm just another impoverished hipster with no means to have visited NYC and, yes, seen it to judge it.
yo i'm here to give you a zerbert lmao that's a huxtablism you can take to the bank!!!
Wow... I was just there a few days ago. Stayed at the Trump Tower on Columbus Circle. Never even noticed...
@3 I made no assumptions; my post was directed at the general public
Both may be acceptable, but "lollipop" looks correct to me ...
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