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Weisz + Yoes (WXY architecture + urban design)
Author(s) -
Merkel Jayne
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.897
Subject(s) - statue , wife , architecture , square (algebra) , face (sociological concept) , art history , pillar , sociology , law , history , political science , archaeology , engineering , social science , geometry , mathematics , structural engineering
Few small avant‐garde practices have an impact on visitors to New York like that of WXY, as the firm is sometimes called. Theirs is particularly surprising since, as Jayne Merkel notes, they have only completed a handful of freestanding buildings. But this mid‐career husband‐and‐wife team of Claire Weisz and Mark Yoes ‐ and their new partner, Layng Pew, whom they met at Yale 20 years ago ‐ are changing the face of Times Square and redesigning historic Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan where ferries leave for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. These heavily used public places are only the most recent ones that they have inventively improved over the last decade and a half. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.