LONGWOOD GARDENS ANNOUNCES WEISS/MANFREDI LED REVITALIZATION

FEBRUARY 18, 2021- Today, Longwood Gardens unveiled plans for the transformation of its conservatory gardens, the most ambitious revitalization in a century of America's greatest center for horticultural display. Led by WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, in collaboration with landscape architects Reed Hilderbrand, the project adds new plantings and buildings across 17-acres. The project will expand the public spaces of the renowned central grounds and connect them from east to west, offering a newly unified but continually varied journey from lush formal gardens to views across the open meadows of Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley.

Highlights of the project include a new WEISS/MANFREDI designed 32,000-square-foot glasshouse, a restaurant overlooking the Main Fountain Garden, an education and administration building with views of the conservatory, and the relocation of The Cascade Garden into an all-new, 3,800-square-foot glasshouse-- the only garden in North ... more