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The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced REX’s Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center among its 2024 shortlist of 53 “outstanding projects” from 259 nominated buildings. Bestowed biennially, the prize acknowledges excellence in built works of architecture across the Americas. Thank you to the jury for this honor! To view MCHAP’s announcement, visit the link below.

https://www.mchap.co/mchap-2024

We are happy to announce that we won two Architizer A+ Awards!

REX was voted Best Medium-Sized Firm (16-40 Employees) and the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center was voted Best Hall/Theater!

Thank you to all that voted; we appreciate everyone’s support!

Construction continues on 9 The Esplanade, the smaller of two signature towers we designed for Brookfield in Elizabeth Quay, Perth, Australia.

Concrete work is being finalized and facade installation is underway. Completion is expected in Q1 of next year.

Popular choice voting for the 2024 Architizer A+ Awards closes at midnight on Friday, May 10, and we would be honored to receive your support! We are finalists in THREE categories:

1. REX is a finalist for Best Medium Sized Firm (16-40 Employees).

2. The Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center is a finalist for best Hall / Theater.

3. The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University is a finalist in the Architecture + Light category.

Users can vote once per category every 24 hours. Link below:

https://shorturl.at/DHSW0

We need your vote! The Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center is a finalist for the 2024 Architizer A+ Award for best Hall/Theater! Users can vote once per category every 24 hours. Link below.

https://tinyurl.com/2fw3ducn

On Thursday, May 2, Joshua Ramus will give a lecture at The National Arts Club in Manhattan. Joshua will discuss the recently completed Perelman Performing Arts Center and other REX work. Link to register for the event below.

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-national-arts-club-6140247955

Last week, REX’s Leadership Team attended the 2024 AIANY Honors and Awards Luncheon, where Associate Principal Alysen Fiore accepted an Honor Award for the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center. Thanks again to Center for Architecture (AIANY) for the recognition!

Last week, Joshua Ramus participated in the Arq.Futuro conference in São Paulo, Brazil, where he lectured on architecture’s potential for supporting New Urban Centralities and participated in discussions about the future development of Campinas. Link below to an interview with Joshua in the Brazilian publication Veja.

https://veja.abril.com.br/comportamento/projetar-cidade-moderna-e-como-uma-guerra-diz-joshua-prince-ramus/

A big thank you again to Fast Company for ranking us No. 25 of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. Only 10 spots behind Taylor Swift Productions!

Click the link below to read the full article announcing our ranking and highlighting the design for the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91029779/rex-most-innovative-companies-2024

Fast Company has ranked REX No. 25 of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2024! Fast Company’s annual ranking covers 58 industries and sectors, from advertising to video. Link to the list below:

https://www.fastcompany.com/most-innovative-companies/list

Joshua Ramus has been named one of the “Top 25 Newsmakers of 2023” by Engineering News-Record. Meet Joshua and the other Newsmakers at the ENR Excellence gala on April 11. Link to the announcement below:

https://www.enr.com/articles/58028-enr-2023-top-25-newsmakers

Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center has been awarded the International Design Awards (IDA) 2023 Building of the Year! It also won Gold awards in both the “Cultural” and “Performing Arts Center” categories. Thank you International Design Awards, we are incredibly honored!

Link to the full list of award winners below:

https://www.idesignawards.com/winners/

The Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center has been recognized with an AIA New York Honor Award, the chapter's highest design award! Thank you Center for Architecture (AIANY) for this incredible honor!

Thank you Fast Company for the featured article covering the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center.

Link to the article below:

Inside the World Trade Center’s new glowing cube The Perelman Performing Arts Center is the last major piece of the Ground Zero puzzle.

Thank you to Los Angeles Times and columnist Carolina Miranda for the recently published article showcasing the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center. Carolina cites the importance of live performance—and flexible performance spaces—in countering the “loneliness epidemic” caused by architecture and technologies that “circumvent the casual interactions that act as social glue” in a post-COVID-19 world.

Link to the full article can be found below:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-12-26/the-pandemic-kept-us-apart-how-two-new-york-performance-bring-people-back-together

The Architect's Newspaper has named the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center as one its top stories of 2023!

Link to the article below:

https://www.archpaper.com/2023/12/here-are-the-top-news-stories-an-covered-in-2023/

Photo by Iwan Baan

Many thanks to Architectural Record for naming the Perelman Performing Arts Center to their top ten projects of 2023! We are deeply honored.

Link to the article below:
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16635-record-editors-top-10-projects-from-2023

Photo by Iwan Baan.

The Perelman Performing Arts Center has been included on The Wall Street Journal's list of "The Best Architecture of 2023," calling PACNYC the "biggest surprise of 2023" and "It cannot be appreciated from photographs, and all the critic can say is go and see it."

Thank you The Wall Street Journal! Read the full article at the link below:

https://www.wsj.com/style/design/the-best-architecture-of-2023-gilder-center-buffalo-akg-art-museum-boston-logan-airport-terminal-e-philadelphia-battery-perelman-performing-arts-center-a7ee5b9d

Photo by Iwan Baan.

This past Friday, The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University received an Honor Award from The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Rhode Island. REX project leader Davis Richardson was in attendance to receive the award. Many thanks to AIA Rhode Island for this great honor!

Link to the full project description can be found below:
rex-ny.com/project/lindemann-brown/

Thank you Dezeen for recognizing the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center as one of the top ten architecture projects of 2023! Link to the full article below:

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/12/09/top-us-architecture-projects-2023/

Photo by Iwan Baan

Last night, The Lindemann opened ‘The Shape of Things’ by conceptual artist Carrie Mae Weems. So amazing to see Avery Willis Hoffman, Brown Arts Institute’s inaugural artistic director, play with the building right out of the gate.

"During the day, the marble washes the interior in warm amber light; at night, it glows like a creamy incandescent boulder." - The Architect's Newspaper describing the new PAC NYC

In his review of the Perelman Performing Arts Center for The Architect’s Newspaper, Justin Beal describes being taken by REX Founding Principal Joshua Ramus backstage for a firsthand tour of the theater’s transforming machinery: “It is here in the building’s mechanized core where it possesses the greatest energy…”

The Perelman Performing Arts Center opens in Lower Manhattan The Perelman Performing Arts Center designed by Rex, Davis Brody Bond, and Rockwell Group opens in Lower Manhattan.

Catch up with REX’s Founding Principal, Joshua Ramus, as he discusses with Architectural Digest the recently completed Perelman Performing Arts Center—a producing house for music, theater, dance, chamber opera, and film pioneering new forms of theatrical adaptability.

Inside a NYC Theater Encased in 5,000 Marble Tiles

The Lindemann’s main volume is shrink-wrapped in an extruded aluminum rainscreen, composed of a fractal-like fluted geometry. The façade’s color and pattern shift in appearance with the time of day and seasonal changes. The flute motif reappears throughout The Lindemann, forming amphitheater seating under the lobby cantilever, benches in the lobby and promenade, scalloped theater seats in the main hall, washbasins in the lavatories, walls in the balcony corridors, and acoustic treatment in the orchestra, dance, and theater rehearsal/performance spaces.

The final image shows a fluted bench in the Diana Nelson and John Atwater Lobby, adjacent to “Infinite Composition,” a site-specific, dynamic light installation by internationally acclaimed artist Leo Villareal.

Photos by Iwan Baan

Embodying Brown’s commitment to infusing the arts into all intellectual pursuits, a clerestory slices through the entire building at stage level, allowing—when desired—the campus at large to vicariously engage in the constant creation of art. The clerestory expands on three of The Lindemann’s sides, cantilevering 35 feet towards the east to form a dramatic main lobby with views over The Walk; 7 feet on the south to create a promenade with direct views into the main hall; and 14 feet on the west as an assembly area for performers that can serve as a more intimate lobby.

The clerestory protects the main hall’s acoustics (or main hall acoustically) with three glass layers: insulated glass units around the clerestory’s outer perimeter; a rectilinear glass enclosure of 25 mm laminated, frameless glazing that provides warm, full-frequency reflection of musical sound; and a second, inner boundary of 40 mm laminated glass arcs shaped to distribute sound throughout the stage and audience areas.

Photos by Iwan Baan

The Lindemann provides Brown University with a one-of-a-kind venue that houses performances, teaching, and research for music, theater, dance, and media. All six surfaces of this radically flexible academic arts “laboratory” modulate physically and acoustically to create five pre-set configurations that include an immersive experimental media cube; a 388-seat recital hall; a 275-seat end-stage theater; a 530-seat concert hall with a stage for a 100-piece orchestra and a choir loft for 70; and a large flat floor configuration.

The transformation from one configuration to another—or the many secondary layouts—can be achieved in four to eight hours with only six staff members thanks to an array of automated and manually assisted performance equipment: 5 suspended, four-tier seating gantries (two tiers for audience members and two for technical staff), 40 adjustable acoustic reflector panels, 7 motorized utility battens, 3 lighting bridges, 2 stage lifts, 3 orchestra platform lifts, 6 telescoping orchestra risers, 3 seating wagon lifts, a three-unit retractable seating system, 5 seating wagons, a ring of deployable acoustic curtains, and a complete technical gridiron 55 feet above the floor.

We are honored that the newly opened Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University made the cover of Architectural Record! Thank you Joann Gonchar for the great piece.

https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16543-a-performance-venue-at-brown-university-gives-the-arts-top-billing