REX is an internationally acclaimed architecture and design firm based in New York City, whose name signifies a re-appraisal (RE) of architecture (X). Operating across many scales, REX consistently challenges and advances building typologies, and promotes the agency of architecture.
REX’s think-tank of 30 designers, hailing from diverse cultural and educational backgrounds, is led by Joshua Ramus. Seminal projects include the Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas; the Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center in Istanbul; and the Seattle Central Library—all opened to critical acclaim. Joshua led the latter project—hailed by Herbert Muschamp in The New York Times as “the most exciting new building it has been my honor to review in more than 30 years of writing about architectureâ€â€”while founding partner of OMA New York, the firm he rebranded as REX in 2006.
REX’s current projects include The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in New York; the Mercedes-Benz Future Lab and Museum in Stuttgart; the new performing arts center for Brown University in Providence; 2050 M Street, a premium office building in Washington, DC that will host CBS’s Washington Bureau; PERTH+, a 60 story mixed-use tower in Western Australia; and the Necklace Residence on Long Island. In the fall of 2017, REX completed the transformation of Five Manhattan West, the re-cladding and interior renovation of a 160,000 m2 exemplar of late-Brutalism straddling Penn Station’s rail yard in New York.