Quot Lollipop Building Quot Sweetly Retooled

A right along Broadway, this is a second act that deserve your attention and it is worth reflecting on the lessons it teaches, both pro and con, about breathing new life into architecture Oddball. There are no second acts in American Live F Scott Fitzgerald novelist once wrote, a truism that no longer seems so real, either in life or buildings. A case in point: 2 Columbus Circle, which began its life as the much-ridiculed lollipop building and that reopens to the public Saturday, if not skillfully semper winningly reinvented as the Museum of Arts and Design.