The Conservatory at Longwood Gardens—a living/breathing glass house—and Hunters Point South Waterfront Park—a submersible earthwork— are paradigms of intelligent design that construct new reciprocities between natural and engineered infrastructures. As our ecological and social worlds become increasingly fragile, new forms of public nature are needed.
Participants
WEISS/MANFREDI
NEW YORK, USA
Michael A. Manfredi, Trieste, Italy. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Marion Weiss, Palo Alto, California, USA. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Authorial Collaborators
Longwood Gardens: Reed Hilderbrand (Landscape); Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park: Thomas Balsley, SWA Balsley
Technical Collaborators
Longwood Gardens: Magnussen Klemencic Associates (Structural), Jaros, Baum & Bolles Consulting Engineers (MEP Consulting Engineer), Front Inc. (Façade Consultants); Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park: ARUP (Prime Consultant and Infrastructure Designer; Structural, and Lighting Engineer), Great Ecology (Ecological Systems and Restoration Ecologist), CH2M Hill (Marine Engineering), Yu & Associates (Environmental Engineer)
Team
Longwood Gardens: Todd Hoehn (Principal and Project Manager), Joe Vessell (Project Architect); Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park: Christopher Ballentine (Project Manager), Lee Lim (Project Architect)
Thanks
Longwood Gardens; Economic Development Corporation, New York City; Albert Vecerka, Sahar Coston-Hardy, David Lloyd, Wade Zimmerman (Photography)
