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A Performance Venue at Brown University Gives the Arts Top Billing

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

November 27, 2023

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Revisit November’s cover story featuring a reconfigurable hall—five spaces in one—designed by REX to be used by all the performing arts.

Flexibility Takes Center Stage at REX's Perelman Center

New York

Izzy Kornblatt

September 14, 2023

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2023 Top 10: Three reconfigurable theaters form the heart of the final public building at Ground Zero.

How the Translucent Stone Façade Was Created on the Perelman Performing Arts Center

Fred A. Bernstein

January 20, 2022

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Architect Joshua Ramus discusses the recently-completed exterior of the theater in Lower Manhattan that opens in 2023.

2050 M Street by REX

Washington, D.C.

Josephine Minutillo

July 31, 2021

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A quiet business district in Washington, D.C., comes alive with a shimmering office building by REX.

First Look at REX’s 2050 M Street in Washington, D.C.

Deane Madsen

September 18, 2019

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A single idea in two simple details reframes the glass box paradigm.

Continuing Education: Renovation, Restoration, Adaptation

Continuing Education: Five Manhattan West by REX

New York

Josephine Minutillo

March 5, 2018

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A Brutalist building in New York is reinvented as prime office space with a glossy new skin.

Vakko Fashion and Power Media Center

REX recycles an abandoned structure and an unrealized design to create an original headquarters for a fashion and media company in Turkey.

Fred A. Bernstein

November 15, 2010

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Sometimes, form follows fortuity. In the 1990s, Rem Koolhaas developed an idea for a private house near Rotterdam; when that project was shelved, he adapted the concept to a much larger building — a concert hall in Porto, Portugal.

Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre by REX/OMA

Dallas, Texas

David Dillon

February 19, 2010

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The mechanistic tower of REX/OMA’s Wyly Theatre enhances the flexibility of the performance along with connection to the world outside.

Continuing Education: Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre

Dramatically reconfigurable: A machinelike hall depends on inventive structural and acoustical solutions.

Joann Gonchar, FAIA

February 19, 2010

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When architects from REX/OMA conceived Dallas’s Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, they envisioned the ultimate flexible performance space.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This course targets architects and engineers seeking advanced knowledge in the design and implementation of vertical extensions above existing buildings using innovative wood systems.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This course discusses structural stainless steel usage by providing a simplified “check list” and a high level summary of the key specification, fabrication, and erection differences.