Construction is moving quickly on Domino Site B, our pair of 50-story residential towers on the Brooklyn waterfront, in partnership with developer Two Trees. Renderings of the final design to be released soon!
1. Progress on the three-story podium spanning River St and Kent Ave, including the rough out of the oval courtyard penetrating a large amenity terrace between the two towers.
2. View of the Williamsburg Bridge from the future stacked interior and exterior pools.
3. Future location of the podium's sinusoidal glass storefront, visible between the interior structural slab and the textured exterior soffit. The storefront’s geometry echoes the curves of the balconies’ balustrades above. Cast-in-place oval columns are used throughout the podium.
REX’s Founding Principal, Joshua Ramus, FAIA, will deliver the Dallas Architecture Forum’s Bob James Memorial Lecture at 7 pm on Thursday, April 9, 2026, at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station.
Link to the event in our bio.
We’re deeply honored to have been selected by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) alongside the following esteemed group of American architects to support the Bureau’s mission over the next five years:
· TEN BERKE ARCHITECTS
· DUVALL DECKER–SPACESMITH
· ENNEAD ARCHITECTS
· KIERANTIMBERLAKE
· KRUECK & SEXTON ARCHITECTS
· LEVER ARCHITECTURE
· MORPHOSIS ARCHITECTS
· REX ARCHITECTURE
· RICHARD & KENNEDY ARCHITECTS
· SHOP ARCHITECTS
· THOMAS PHIFER & PARTNERS
· WEISS/MANFREDI ARCHITECTS
Per OBO’s public announcement, “These regionally diverse firms will represent the United States as OBO delivers the next generation of secure, resilient diplomatic facilities. Their work will be central to OBO’s mission to provide the most effective facilities for U.S. diplomacy abroad, ensuring the United States is safer, stronger, and more prosperous.”
Construction is moving quickly on Domino Site B, our pair of 50-story residential towers on the Brooklyn waterfront, in partnership with developer Two Trees. Renderings of the final design to be released soon!
Seen here is a mock-up of the seven-foot-wide balconies that wrap the entirety of both towers. The balconies are perforated with large ovals in a staggered pattern, offsetting those on the floors above and below. The ovals’ geometry—and the four-foot-tall, sinusoidal glass guardrails that undulate between them—force occupants to the window wall as they approach their neighbors’ units, maintaining privacy without a screen that would obstruct views of Manhattan and preserving interior light levels. The staggered elliptical pattern will create remarkable light phenomena across the towers’ surfaces.
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REX Principals Alysen Hiller Fiore and Adam Chizmar will be speaking tomorrow, March 20 at the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge for the @aialouisiana “Celebrate Architecture” event. Link to the event in our bio.
We are pleased to announce that The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University has been awarded a 2026 iF Gold Design Award. Out of over 10,000 submissions from 68 nations, The Lindemann was one of only 75 outstanding winners to be awarded the iF Gold Trophy. Thank you to the iF jury for this great honor!
On Thursday, February 26, 2026, REX's founding principal, Joshua Ramus, FAIA, will give the Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture at the Cornell AAP. The lecture, titled 'So Far,' will start at 5:30 PM in Milstein Hall.
On Thursday, October 30, 2025, at 6:30 pm EST, Joshua will give the John Portman Lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Titled “10,887,” his lecture will reflect on the evolution of ideas that germinated over the 10,887 days since he defended his master’s thesis in Gund Hall’s Piper Auditorium and remain underlying currents in his work. These predilections include architectural agency, new perspectives on flexibility, and the effectiveness of phenomena over form.
We are incredibly grateful to be recognized as an honoree at the 2025 Common Bond: The Center for Architecture Gala. This remarkable gathering of professionals from the architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate industries celebrates our city’s rich legacy of design excellence.
A heartfelt thank you to the Center for Architecture and AIA NY for this honor—we are proud to be part of such an inspiring community.
Link to the event description can be found in our bio.
We are happy to announce that The Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University has won the Design Educates Awards’ Silver Prize in Architectural Design! Thank you for this honor.
Photos by @iwanbaan
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On Wednesday, April 16, REX’s Joshua Ramus will be speaking at Stanford University as part of the School of Architecture + Landscape + Urban Design’s Spring Lecture Series.
We are honored to announce that Joshua Ramus has been elevated to The College of Fellows of The American Institute of Architects (AIA), the AIA’s highest membership honor. Founded in 1952, this prestigious award is bestowed on architects who have made significant contributions to the profession and society, demonstrating excellence and leadership on a national level. Joshua was granted Fellowship in Object 1 – Design, given to architects who have produced extensive bodies of distinguished work that has been broadly recognized for its design excellence. Less than 3% of AIA members hold the prestigious FAIA designation.
