Critics Lash Out at Redesign Proposal for Landmark 'Red Cube' Plaza

Charles A. Birnbaum, president of the Washington-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, said in a letter to LPC Chair Meenakshi Srinivasan that the structure “would not only adversely affect the experience of Noguchi’s sculpture, but of the building and the plaza as well, for all three elements are compositionally intertwined.” The foundation named 140 Broadway an “at risk” landscape and urged the LPC to reject the plan.