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WEISS/MANFREDI featured in The New York Times
The New York Times published James S. Russell's insightful profile on WEISS/MANFREDI this weekend, covering the firm's history, our past, present, and future projects, and our enduring ethos of seamlessly integrating architecture, landscape, and urbanism into one.
“They fearlessly sculpt the setting as if it were architecture and manipulate landscapes to shape buildings,” he writes. “Universities, arts organizations and other institutions are drawn to their hybrid balancing of buildings and nature because it provides the tools to address contemporary challenges: climate change, welcoming more diverse populations, and engaging screen-obsessed people with real-life experiences.”
Read the piece online and in print in the Sunday edition.
Longwood Gardens
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Longwood Gardens
Longwood Reimagined continues the institution's distinguished history of commissioning outstanding garden designs, resulting in a sweeping yet deeply sensitive transformation in the most ambitious revitalization in a century of America's greatest center for horticultural display.
Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park
A continuous constructed landscape for art, the uninterrupted Z-shaped "green" platform rises over the existing infrastructure to reconnect the urban core to the revitalized Seattle waterfront.
U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India
The new design for the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi recognizes the legacy of this important site while establishing a foundation for the future of Indian and U.S. diplomacy.
Drifting Symmetries: Projects, Provocations, and Other Enduring Models
Weiss/Manfredi's first book in a decade, Drifting Symmetries synthesizes project and precedent to construct more resilient settings for contemporary life
Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park
Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park transforms 30 acres of post-industrial waterfront into a program-rich public space that simultaneously acts as a protective perimeter for the neighboring residential community.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center
The Visitor Center provides a legible point of arrival and orientation, an interface between garden and city, culture and cultivation.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art International Design Competition – Creating a Museum for All
As a nexus of culture and community, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is treasured for its innovative programs and internationally recognized collection. The crisp forms of the existing buildings offer an elegant counterpoint to the landscape, yet their opacity conceals the vibrancy of the museum and precludes an invitation to the broader community.
Our design’s organic geometries shape the new west addition, and, with the expanded south terrace, recenters the cultural campus around the treasured sculpture park. The newly accessible north entry frames a natural ecological landscape, and the rooftop addition amplifies a central entry.
La Brea Tar Pits and Museum Master Plan
The renovation and expansion is conceived as a contemporary Wunderkammer, a treasure chest of stunning fossils and artifacts, from large to microscopic.