Architectural Digest Features Weiss/Manfredi's Equitable Design

In Architectural Digest, Fred A. Bernstein describes the accessible and equitable design ideas inherent to the work of WEISS/MANFREDI. In an age of COVID, social inequality and climate change, public spaces and their thoughtful planning are becoming increasingly essential to urban life.

Across the country, WEISS/MANFREDI is focusing on designs that put accessibility and equity first. In Brooklyn, the switchback pathways of the Botanic Garden’s Overlook invites all visitors to effortlessly scale a formerly prohibitive berm. At the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, a new concept plan will increase shade equity for local communities. The design of the Tampa Museum of Art includes a newly accessible waterfront. WEISS/MANFREDI is applying the same philosophy to the Dallas Trinity River revitalization, in which a former jail will be turned into a civic and environmental hub, and where Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi hope to, “literally and figuratively open up the walls.”

Read the full article in Architectural Digest.