WXY architecture + urban design

WXY is an award-winning, studio-based multidisciplinary practice focusing on innovative approaches to public space, structures and cities. Celebrated as much for its focus on community and urban design as for the firm’s agility with incorporating new technologies and green design, WXY excels in complex urban challenges, education and civic buildings, parks and waterfront developments, and other projects ranging from furniture designs to city master plans. Claire Weisz is founding principal of the New York-based practice, working alongside partners Mark Yoes, Layng Pew and Adam Lubinsky. WXY has received the League Prize and an Emerging Voice in 2011 from The Architectural League. Recent and ongoing public work includes the redesign of Astor Place and a variety of work on the waterfront including Far Rockaway Park, the Spring Street Sanitation Garage, Transmitter Park and Pier, The Battery’s Seaglass Carousel, Pier 26 Boathouse & Restaurant, and the latest study for Pier 40. Past planning efforts include Civic Action with The Noguchi Museum and Socrates Sculpture Park; Grand Central Terminal/East Midtown's Next 100 re-imagined with Municipal Art Society; a study for the Brooklyn Tech Triangle; and the East River Blueway Plan. WXY’s integrated design process involves clients and stakeholders, to coordinate and solve complex design problems, yielding solutions as noteworthy for their intimacy and detail as for their civic dignity and amenity. The broad capabilities of WXY are ev