DOMUS: Moscow Polytechnic: 2nd Prize to Leeser →

The 430,000 sq ft Museum was built in three stages from 1887 to 1907 and has since become an architectural and cultural landmark in Moscow. Leeser Architecture's design included covering the courtyards of the existing building with an additional 22,000 sq ft of exhibition space identified as 'the Cloud.' The Cloud, composed entirely of glass, floats above the proposed active courtyard spaces, allowing for visitors to experience the feeling of walking on air. When occupying the Cloud visitors are granted unprecedented views over the city of Moscow establishing the Museum as a cultural destination...read more at domus >>

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 >>

INHABITAT: LEESER Architecture Transforms Brooklyn's Historic Strand Theater Into a Cultural Space for the Digital Age →

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Cultural District in Fort Greene continues to grow into a destination for the arts with the addition of Leeser Architecture's $40 million expansion and renovation plans for the historic Strand Theater. Built in 1918 for vaudeville acts, the theater has also functioned as a movie palace and bowling alley and will now become a 21st Century, state-of-the-art facility for BRIC Arts Media, a non-profit that presents arts, music, and educational programs for the borough's diverse cultural community, and UrbanGlass, an organization dedicated to glass making and teaching...read more at INHABITAT >>

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 >>