Curtain wall installation has reached the 14th floor at LEESER Architecture and Ismael Leyva Architect's 17-story, 290-unit rental near Brooklyn Bridge Park. The glass curtain wall features vertical fins, yet to be installed, of opposing triangles that define irregular shapes which help to break down the relentless glass envelope. The Two Trees development will also contain a 300-seat middle school and retail at its base. see construction photos at Field Condition >>
New York-based Leeser Architecture unveiled their music-inspired proposal for The House of Hungarian Music in Budapest which has no straight lines or planar surfaces. The architects drew inspiration from Goethe’s notion of architecture being frozen music and came up with a design based on flowing organic forms and flexible spaces for exhibitions, installations and performances...read more at INHABITAT >>
Gaze into the glass façade of the DUMBO developer family's Dock Street project, on the left side of this new Brooklyn Eagle photo. That's the famed Clocktower Building you see reflected there. It's only fitting that the project in progress should serve as a mirror for its century-old neighbor. read more at Brooklyn Daily Eagle >>
Until five years ago, the stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was an architectural wasteland. The strip started coming to life with a small project (WXY’s skillful security booths for the MetroTech center), then with a very big one—the Toren, an SOM-designed condo tower with an unusual, dimpled-metal façade...read more at Architectural Record >>
Located in Moscow, the Moscow Polytechnic Museum & Education Center aspires to be “a dynamic, participatory venue radicalizing research and discourse for the future of science and art.” Designed by LEESER Architecture, the museum is considered both an architectural and cultural landmark in Moscow...read more at Honest Buildings >>