Brad Cloepfil

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Brad Cloepfil (1957 - ) is an American architect and principal of Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Oregon. Cloepfil is the designer of the 2003 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and in November 2006 was chosen to design Denver's Clyfford Still Museum.

His redesign of 2 Columbus Circle in New York City is controversial. Plans to destroy Edward Durell Stone's original design touched off an preservation battle joined by Tom Wolfe, Chuck Close, Frank Stella, Robert A. M. Stern, Columbia art history department chairman Barry Bergdoll, New York Times' architecture critics Herbert Muschamp and Nicolai Ouroussoff, urbanist scholar Witold Rybczynski, among others. Stone's original design at 2 Columbus Circle was listed as one of the World Monuments Fund's "100 Most Endangered Sites for 2006." In 2004, the National Trust for Historic Preservation called it one of America's "11 Most Endangered Historic Places."

[edit] External links

• Article about 2 Columbus Circle redesign from New York magazine
• BOMB Magazine article
• ArchitectureWeek interview