| REX Architecture P.C. | |
|---|---|
| Practice information | |
| Key architects | Joshua Prince-Ramus |
| Principal office | New York, New York |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Work | |
| Buildings | Seattle Central Library, Museum Plaza, AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum, Vakko Headquarters |
REX Architecture P.C. is the architecture and design firm of American architect Joshua Prince-Ramus based in New York City. Prince-Ramus serves as the firm’s Principal.
Notable projects include the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas; the Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center in Istanbul, Turkey and the Seattle Central Library in Seattle, Washington. Current work includes Museum Plaza in Louisville, Kentucky; the new Central Library and Music Conservatory for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium;[1]; a 2,643,000 sq ft (245,500 m2) luxury residential development in Songdo Landmark City, South Korea; and a line of public furniture for Belgian furniture company Quinze & Milan.
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REX was originally founded in 2000 by Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas as OMA New York, an American affiliate of the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). In 2006, OMA New York severed its strategic alliance with OMA and Prince-Ramus renamed the firm REX.[2]
While serving as OMA New York’s Principal from 2000–2006, Prince-Ramus was Principal in Charge of the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, the Guggenheim Las Vegas Museum and the Seattle Central Library, hailed as TIME magazine’s 2004 Building of the Year”[3] and by the late New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp as “the most exciting new building it has been my 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 (AIA), the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the American Library Association (ALA). It also was the first LEED-Silver rated building of its type in the United States.
REX recently completed the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas and the Vakko Fashion Center and Power Media Center in Istanbul, Turkey. Current work includes Museum Plaza, a 62-story mixed-use skyscraper housing a contemporary art center in Louisville, Kentucky; the new Central Library and Music Conservatory for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium;[5] a 2,643,000 ft2 luxury residential development in Songdo Landmark City, South Korea; and a line of public furniture for Belgian furniture company Quinze & Milan. Notably, within the past year REX received second prize in both the international competition for the new Edvard Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, and the Finnish Innovation Fund’s Low2No sustainable development competition in Helsinki, Finland.[6]