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The new Time Warner Center, at the southwest corner of Central Park, isn't a bad piece of urban design. The base of the building reflects the curve of Columbus Circle in a sumptuous, even graceful arc, and it gives the circle a monumentality that it never had before. If you don't look up, you could like this building. Columbus Circle is one of New York's few true roundabouts, and almost every building put on it has ignored the architectural potential that the shape holds. Edward Durell Stone's sweet but hapless marble museum at 2 Columbus Circle made a gentle nod to the curving street, but you hardly noticed it when the monolithic New York Coliseum loomed on the site that ...