Leeser

Leonard C. Leeser is one of the crew which remains MIA.

Leeser, Leonard C. 1991

Leeser Architecture Thomas Leeser has set out to recast the building at Fulton Street and Rockwell Place as a citizen of the digital age.

Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012

At the Strand, which when completed in 2013 will house BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, a multipurpose arts organization that runs the Celebrate Brooklyn concert series, and glass-blowing studio Urban Glass, Mr. Leeser has begun, literally and figuratively, to scrawl a very modern signature over the face of an obsolete building.

Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012

"I think the future is not so much about form, and what things look like," Mr. Leeser says.

Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012

We treated it with deliberate irreverence, Mr. Leeser said in an interview at the offices of his firm, Leeser Architecture, in Dumbo.

Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012

Leeser Architecture Architect Thomas Leeser takes a minimalistic approach to the $40 million renovation of the old Strand Theatre.

Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012

“Where else can you lose four billion and stick the landing?” whooped Leeser.

Norb Vonnegut: The Mulligans of Hedgistan Norb Vonnegut 2010

Thomas Leeser , the architect tasked with a $40 million renovation of the Strand structure funded by the city, state and private donations as part of the city's plan to create a new cultural district in the area, is also disdainful of the idea that the Strand is anything more than a fixer-upper dressed up a historic structure.

Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012

But when the addition, designed by Thomas Leeser, an architect's architect with few completed works, opened in January following at least one complete redesign, the diamond-cut opaque facade with its canted, liquid white walls and Yves-Klein-blue quilted auditorium, among other zoomy touches, propelled the museum in a stroke to the forefront of high-tech media display spaces.

Why Hard Times Can Make Great Buildings Julie V. Iovine 2011

Mr. Leeser, a German trained at Cooper Union, is best known in New York for his addition to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, which opened earlier this year to wide critical acclaim.

Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012