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 >>
WORLD ARCHITECTURE NEWS: All play and no work →
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 >>
NEW YORK TIMES: A Theater Group Offers Hope at Ground Zero →
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 >>
METROPOLIS MAGAZINE: Street Performance →
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 >>