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Weiss/Manfredi Architecture / Landscape / Urbanism

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FROM THE ARCHITECTS:

WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism is at the forefront of architectural design practices that are redefining the relationships between landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art. The firm's projects are noted for clarity of vision, bold and iconic forms, and material innovation. Named one of North America's "Emerging Voices" by the Architectural League of New York, WEISS/MANFREDI's distinct vision was recognized with the Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Additional honors include the Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal and the New York AIA Gold Medal.

The firm's design for the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, integrates art, architecture, and ecology in a new model for waterfront development. Exhibited in the "Groundswell" show at The Museum of Modern Art, the project has won a World Architecture Festival Award, I.D. Magazine Environments Award, Progressive Architecture Award, AIA Awards, ASLA Honor Award, EDRA Places Award, and was the first North American project to win Harvard University's International V.R. Green Prize in Urban Design. The award-winning Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park, located on the East River in Queens, New York, recently opened to the public. Surrounded by water on three sides, the integrated park design weaves together infrastructure, landscape, and architecture into a model of urban ecology and a resilient, multi-layered cultural destination.

WEISS/MANFREDI recently won a national competition with OLIN to redesign the Sylvan Theater, an integrated outdoor amphitheater at the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington, D.C. The firm's new Visitor Center at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, winner of a National ASLA Honor Award, is conceived as a seamless extension of the Garden's path system, offering a new sequence of views into and through the historic Garden. Their Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology recently opened to the public at the University of Pennsylvania. This state-of-the-art lab facility brings together researchers across disciplines in a welcoming new gateway to campus. Other built works include the Barnard College Diana Center, Museum of the Earth, and the Women's Memorial and Education Center at Arlington National Cemetery.

The firm has won numerous awards and competitions and has been featured in exhibitions at The Museum of Modem Art, the Venice Architectural Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale of International Architecture and Design, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the National Building Museum, The International Landscape Architecture Biennale in Barcelona, and the Design Center in Essen, Germany. Princeton Architectural Press has published two monographs on their work entitled WEISS/MANFREDI: Surface/Subsurface and Site Specific: The Work of WEISS/MANFREDI Architects. A new monograph was recently published in Korean and English by Pro Architect and Evolutionary Infrastructures, a Harvard GSD publication, is forthcoming.

Projects

  1. Award Winning Longwood Gardens West Conservatory, by Weiss/Manfredi

    Longwood Gardens West Conservatory, by Weiss/Manfredi

    Kennett Square, PA

  2. U.S. Embassy in New Delhi

    U.S. Embassy in New Delhi

  3. Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park, by Swa/Balsley and Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

    Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park, by Swa/Balsley and Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

    New York City, NY

  4. Award Winning  La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, by Weiss/Manfredi

    La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, by Weiss/Manfredi

    Los Angeles, CA

  5. Award Winning Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

    Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

    Ithaca, NY

  6. U.S. Embassy - New Delhi

    U.S. Embassy - New Delhi

    New Delhi, India

  7. Tata Innovation Center

    Tata Innovation Center

    New York, NY

  8. Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum

    Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum

    Naples, FL

  9. Robert W. Wilson Overlook

    Robert W. Wilson Overlook

    New York, NY

  10. Kent State Center for Architecture and Environmental Design

    Kent State Center for Architecture and Environmental Design

    Kent, OH, United States

  11. Cornell Tech Campus

    Cornell Tech Campus

    New York, NY

  12. Marshall Family Performing Arts Center

    Marshall Family Performing Arts Center

  13. Award Winning Novartis Pharmaceuticals Office Building

    Novartis Pharmaceuticals Office Building

    East Hanover, NJ

  14. Award Winning Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: 
Envisioning a Cultural Arts District

    Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Envisioning a Cultural Arts District

    Kansas City, Mo.

  15. Award Winning Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

    Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

    Brooklyn, NY, USA

  16. Award Winning Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

    Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

    Philadelphia, PA, United States

  17. Olympic Sculpture Park

    Olympic Sculpture Park

    Seattle, WA, United States

  18. Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

    Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

    Philadelphia, PA, United States

  19. Award Winning Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

    Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

    Brooklyn, NY, United States

  20. Award Winning Diana Center, Barnard College

    Diana Center, Barnard College

    New York, NY, United States

  21. The Diana Center

    The Diana Center

    New York, NY, United States

  22. The Diana Center, New York

    The Diana Center, New York

    New York, NY, United States

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