While the distant location of Siberia might seem surprising, given that it attracted such international talent, the museum’s name explains a lot about its focus: the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum. Located roughly 280 miles from the Arctic Circle, in the city of Yakutsk in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),it will be dedicated to the study and display of ancient mammoth remains as well as fragile permafrost landscapes...read more at Architectural Record >>
The super-insulated building is fitted with a host of technologies to reduce its impact on the extreme yet fragile environment while serving as both a research centre and museum...read more at LEESER Architecture >>
Leeser Architecture have helped design two exhibitions, that will inaugurate the new LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Center in Gijón, Spain...read more at WAN >>
For arts organizations, progress at the World Trade Center site has so far resembled a Beckett play: waiting and disappointment, followed by more waiting and disappointment. Opposition from victims’ relatives and political fighting have meant that none of the dreamed-of cultural projects has broken ground. And now that the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has been disbanded, arts groups are more worried than ever that the planned performing arts center and $7 million worth of federal arts grants will remain on paper...read more at New York Times >>
Parking won’t be a problem for theatergoers at the 3LD Art & Technology Center, located at the beginning of Greenwich Street, only blocks from the Staten Island Ferry terminal and the World Trade Center site. The new multimedia performance space by Thomas Leeser [pronounced “Lazer”] is sleekly embedded behind a curving glass facade on the ground floor of Manhattan’s first publicly built parking garage. Not that many of the visitors will be driving: since the fall of the Twin Towers, the financial district’s residential population has increased by an estimated 62 percent...read more at METROPOLIS >>