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Aerial view of a contemporary waterfront park with tiered green spaces, orange sculptural elements, and integrated pathways overlooking a bay and urban skyline by WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism.
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WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

Architecture FirmEst. 1989

WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism is a New York-based practice redefining the relationships between landscape, architecture, infrastructure, and art. Named one of North America's "Emerging Voices" by the Architectural League of New York, the firm's honors include the Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the New York AIA Gold Medal. Its design for the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park, selected through international competition, integrates art, architecture, and ecology into a new model for waterfront development, and has won a World Architecture Festival Award and Harvard's Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design. The firm also designed the award-winning Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park on the East River in Queens, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center, and the revitalization of Longwood Gardens.

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Projects

  1. Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park

    Cultural · Seattle, WA

    A continuous constructed landscape for art that reconnects the urban core to the revitalized Seattle waterfront

  2. Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park

    Public Space · Queens, NY

    Transforms 30 acres of post-industrial waterfront into a program-rich public space that acts as a protective perimeter for the neighboring residential community

  3. Longwood Gardens

    Landscape · Kennett Square, PA

    The most ambitious revitalization in a century of America's greatest center for horticultural display

  4. Brooklyn Botanic Garden Visitor Center

    Cultural · Brooklyn, NY

    Nested into an existing hillside, experienced as a three-dimensional continuation of the garden path system

  5. Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University

    Healthcare-Education · New Haven, CT

    Continuous sightlines unite spaces of creation and critique, encouraging interdisciplinary discourse

  6. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art International Design Competition

    Cultural · Kansas City, MO

    Addition and renovation that recenters the cultural campus around the treasured sculpture park with organic geometries

  7. Barnard College Diana Center

    Healthcare-Education · New York, NY

  8. Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

    Healthcare-Education · Philadelphia, PA

Awards & press

  • 2024 Louis I. Kahn Award

    2024

  • 2020 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture

    Thomas Jefferson Foundation · 2020

  • 2018 Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Institution's National Design Award

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Institution · 2018

  • New York AIA Gold Medal

    American Institute of Architects New York

  • Award in Architecture

    American Academy of Arts and Letters

  • Hunter's Point South Waterfront Park wins 2025 ULI Americas Award of Excellence

    ULI Americas · 2025

  • Longwood Gardens West Conservatory wins Popular Choice Architizer A+ Award

    Architizer

  • WEISS/MANFREDI inducted into Interior Design 2025 Hall of Fame

    Interior Design · 2025

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