Standing Up For Modernism

New York’s Museum of Art & Design is planning to reclad and renovate a modernist structure on Columbus Circle to serve as its new home, but the World Monuments Fund is protesting, arguing as part of its new list of endangered architectural sites that “the 1964 building represents a turning point in Modernist design. In an era of growing calls for the preservation of Modernist architecture, the 2006 watch list includes nine 20th-century sites.”