We arrived during the early morning, sailing under the Verrazzano. We came by boat from Italy, where we lived. During the late ’60s, when I was a child, I visited New York for the first time with my family. Manfredi The cables descend at the highest point of the bridge - that’s where you get an unobstructed view of not just Lower Manhattan but of the whole sweep of the harbor and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. The architecture of the bridge is neo-Gothic and those views through crisscrossing cables always make me think of stained glass. Our conversation has been edited and condensed. This is the latest in a series of what, out of respect for self-quarantining, have become virtual walks around the city with architects and others. On their walk, they start out along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, jog through Cadman Plaza Park and stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge. Their office is on Hudson Street in Manhattan, overlooking the Holland Tunnel. Weiss teaches architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. The couple are co-founders of Weiss/Manfredi, an architecture, landscape and urban design firm whose projects include the United States Embassy in New Delhi, Hunter’s Point South Park in Queens, Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park and the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.
The architects Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi have lived since the early 1990s around the corner from where the Roeblings did. When the bridge opened in 1883, she was the first to cross it in a carriage. Then Washington suffered the bends working in the pneumatic caissons he had designed for the underwater foundations of the towers, and Emily saw the project through to completion. He took over after his father, the bridge’s genius engineer, John Augustus Roebling, died in 1869. Washington was in charge of construction. When they were home in Brooklyn Heights, Emily Roebling and her husband, Washington, could look toward the East River and see how work was progressing on the Brooklyn Bridge.
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