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WXY's Claire Weisz receives AIA New York's Medal of Honor

Honor Thy Planners

WXY's Claire Weisz receives AIA New York's Medal of Honor

A rendering of WXY's redevelopment of the Brooklyn Strand. (Courtesy WXY)

WXY Architecture + Urban Design co-founder Claire Weisz has received the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter’s (AIANY) top award, the Medal of Honor.

“We are delighted to present to Claire the 2018 Medal of Honor, our chapter’s highest level of recognition, for her ongoing career of distinguished work, and her immense contributions to public and civic space in New York,” said Benjamin Prosky, executive director of AIANY and the Center for Architecture, in a statement.

WXY partner and co-founder Mark Yoes has also been elevated to an AIA Fellow, which recognizes “exceptional work and lasting contributions to architecture and society.”

Clare Weisz (Sioux Nesi/ WXY architecture + urban design)

Weisz is an avowed urbanist, and WXY has won recognition for a large number of public projects across New York City, including a 2018 AIA Honor Award for their work on the Spring Street Salt Shed. Weisz was named a 2011 Emerging Voices winner, and WXY’s reconstruction of Astor Place and Cooper Square nabbed the studio a mention in AN’s 2017 Best of Design Awards for Urban Design. The studio works at all scales, from master planning enormous developments to designing for coastal resiliency, to street furniture and everything in between.

Weisz will be honored at a ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on April 20 at the annual AIANY Honors and Awards Luncheon. Artist Ai Weiwei, this year’s winner of the Award of Merit, and critic Inga Saffron, winner of the Kliment Oculus Award, will also be recognized at the event alongside the 2018 AIANY Design Awards winners.

One set of Design Awards winners who won’t be attending is Richard Meier and Peter Marino, as the AIANY stripped both architects of their 2018 Merit Awards late last month amidst reports of harassment and misconduct.

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