All this angst about what to do with the peculiar building at 2 Columbus Circle in New York. Ada Louise Huxtable weighs in: “The most basic preservation question is not being asked at all. What will be lost, and what will be gained? The proposal being rejected out of hand is a promising solution by a talented young American practitioner that will reclaim an abandoned building of debatable merit for a desirable cultural facility. We do not lose the building; everything that is good about it will be retained – its size, its scale, and its intimate relationship to the street. What is bad about the building – the dark, cramped and virtually useless interior and those faux harem walls that close off spectacular views – will be changed.”