BUILDIPEDIA: Celebrating Cultural Influences on Design: the Made in USA – German Architects in New York Exhibition →

On March 1 – March 23, 2012, the German Consulate General in New York featured an exhibition called Made in USA – German Architects in New York. The exhibition featured the work of seven architects from Germany who are now based in New York. When it comes to design culture, there is a is a long history of exchange and interrelationship between the United States and Germany, and, as a curatorial statement for the exhibition states, “it is within this historic trajectory that this exhibition wants to invite a fresh look on contemporary practice in New York City.”...read more at Buildipedia >>

NEW YORK TIMES: Immersed in Images and an Age of Blurred Boundaries →

Designed by Thomas Leeser, the swollen baby-blue form, which has been grafted onto the back of a 1920s building, effectively blurs the boundaries among architecture, film and viewer. In doing so it immerses you in the kind of fantasy world you usually get only when the lights are turned off...read more at New York Times >>

HUFFINGTON POST: Tour the Newly Opened Museum of the Moving Image →

The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NY, has now doubled in size from 50,000 to 97,700 square feet with an expansion designed by architect Thomas Leeser. The design re-imagines the ground floor of the existing City-owned building and provides a three-story addition...read more at The Huffington Post >>

NEW YORK MAGAZINE: Up Into the Dark →

For an architect to build a museum of moving pictures is a bit like a vintner bottling mountain air. They’re everywhere, those squirmy apparitions. They cling to the side of a building, the back of an airplane seat, or the face of a wristwatch, yet remain essentially unchanged. How do you build a home for a rectangle of flickering light? read more at New York Magazine >>

WALL STREET JOURNAL: How Film transforms our Reality →

With moving images now as close at hand as the nearest cellphone or iPad, it seems especially important to consider where they come from and how they may be transforming our reality. It's hard to think of a better place to address such questions than the Museum of the Moving Image, the only institution in the U.S. devoted to all forms of screen culture: film, television and digital media. It occupies a site cherished by cinéastes, the former Astoria Studio, which was once populated by glittering stars. Now an ambitious $67 million redesign and expansion, opening to the public Saturday, aims to rekindle some of that long-lost glamour while ushering the museum into the future...read more at Wall Street Journal >>