Advisory Board

Belinda Watts, AIA, joined Gensler with experience in a diversified range of projects, including extensive work in designing and managing both architectural and interior projects. Based in Gensler’s New York office, her work encompasses base building analysis, programming, preliminary design, design development, production drawings, construction administration and project management.  Prior to joining Gensler, Belinda worked on architectural projects ranging from a pedestrian bridge made of manufactured goods in New Jersey, private residences on Long Island and tensile structures for shade and bandshells on the East Coast. She moved to New York in 1982 after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Curtin University, in Perth Australia, with the award winning thesis “Designing for the Aged,” and went on to receive at master’s degree in architecture at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.Belinda led the design analysis of Renzo Piano's New York Times Building on Eighth Avenue for co-developer Forest City Ratner, and for Frank Gehry's Atlantic Yards Development in Brooklyn.

She orchestrated the due diligence studies for the relocation of Christie's to Rockefeller Center and the Burberry Flagship store on 57th St.  Her recent workplace fit-out projects include Ziff Brothers Investments, Bain and Company, JC Flowers and Company, Taconic Capital Advisors, and MetLife.  Belinda also led the 1,000,000 SF interior fit-out of the new Comcast Headquarters in Philadelphia, which features a four-story glass stair.The Children's Museum of Manhattan is an important part of Belinda's Educational and Institution experience, including the masterplan completed in 2003, phase one of which included the third floor PlayWorks space. She has also worked on numerous “play booths” at CMOM Benefits, most recently the highly successful 2008 Fall Family event “Building Buildings.”