The ARCHITECT'S NEWSPAPER: Unveiled> Rockwell Place Hotel Leeser Architecture adding a multifaceted tower to the Brooklyn Downtown Cultural District. →

As its expansion of the BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn and UrbanGlass complex nears completion, Leeser Architecture is embarking on its next project in the Brooklyn Downtown Cultural District. The Brooklyn-based firm has been tapped to design the new 200-room Rockwell Place Hotel next to The Theater for a New Audience. With the new Barclays Center only a block away and a flood of new arts and cultural venues cropping up in the area, the 30-story hotel will accommodate the growing number of visitors flocking to the borough...read more at The Architect's Newspaper >>

CURBED NY: 200-Room Hotel Planned for BAM Cultural District →

The BAM Cultural District is getting another new tower, this time a hotel. The Post reports that at 200-room hotel will be rising at 95 Rockwell Place, not far from the 32-story apartment building planned by Two Trees. To design the hotel, developer Second Development Services tapped architect Thomas Leeser, who has created such stunners as the Museum of the Moving Image and the 2012 London Olympic Park...read more at Curbed NY >>

NEW YORK POST: Hotel for BAM and Barclay's →

A growing cultural district that includes the Brooklyn Academy of Music has become such a tourist draw in recent years that it’s finally getting its own hotel, The Post has learned...read more at New York Post >>

DAILY NEWS: Inside a luxury Z-shaped Manhattan rental with an amphitheater, bocce ball courts and outdoor pool →

The ziggurat-shaped building rises high around you. Zen-style sunscreens block the sun to give the structure the feel of a giant civic building in a futuristic science-fiction world where only bright skies exist. Several renters have terraces that go up and down the Z-shaped building. It’s like nothing this city has ever seen before...read more at Daily News >>

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 >>