The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), designed by Portland–based Allied Works Architecture, will open the doors of its new Columbus Circle digs on September 27. The 54,000 sq ft building triples the space of the Museum’s previous home while transforming the former “lollipop” building, a Venetian-style palazzo designed in mid 1960s by Edward Durell Stone, into a fitting home for the Country’s leading arts, craft and design institution. The project is a New York debut for architect Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, who bested Zaha Hadid, Toshiko Mori and Smith-Miller + Hawkinson in a competition to design the building.