REX (architecture firm)

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REX
Practice information
Key architects Joshua Prince-Ramus
Founded2000
Location New York, New York
Significant works and honors
Buildings
Website
www.rex-ny.com

REX is an architecture and design firm based in New York City. The firm's name is intended to symbolize reappraisal ("RE") of architecture ("X"). Notable projects headed by its founder include the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas; the Vakko Fashion Center in Istanbul, Turkey; and the Seattle Central Library. The work of REX has been recognized with accolades including two American Institute of Architects' National Honor Awards in 2005 and 2011, [1] a U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology National Honor Award, an American Library Association National Building Award, and two American Council of Engineering Companies' National Gold Awards.[ not verified in body ]

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History

Seattle Central Library, Seattle, WA Seattle Library 01.jpg
Seattle Central Library, Seattle, WA

REX's 30 designers are led by Joshua Prince-Ramus, who was founding partner of OMA New York [2] —the American affiliate of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas—until he left to start REX in 2006. [3]

While at OMA New York, Prince-Ramus was Partner in Charge of the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas and the Seattle Central Library, hailed as Time's 2004 Building of the year and by Herbert Muschamp in The New York Times as "the most exciting new building it has been an honor to review in more than 30 years of writing about architecture." [4] In 2005, the Seattle Central Library was awarded the top honors bestowed by the American Institute of Architects, the American Library Association, and the American Council of Engineering Companies. The Library was one of seven finalists for the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, awarded in 2014 to the best architectural work in North and South America completed from 2000 to 2013. [5]

Projects

AT&T Performing Arts Center's Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Dallas, TX Distant view of the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre (edited).jpg
AT&T Performing Arts Center's Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Dallas, TX

Ongoing projects include the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, an 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2) building for the production and premiering of theater, dance, music, musical theater, opera, and film works; the Mercedes-Benz Future Lab in Stuttgart, Germany, a 110,000 sq ft (10,200 m2) public showcase for the brand's impact on mobility and a factory for debating the future; a 46,000 sq ft (4,300 m2) private residence on Long Island; 2050 M Street, a new office building in Washington, DC, and a performing arts center at Brown University. [6]

Completed projects include the re-cladding and interior renovation of Five Manhattan West

Awards

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