REX DESIGNS A CRYSTALLINE & CONCAVE OFFICE BUILDING FOR WASHINGTON DC

 REX has released designs for 2050 M street, an office building in Washington DC's Golden Triangle Business Dirstrict The 41,800 square meter "450,000 square foot " building evolves & merges two existing typologies in the US Capitol.

Heavy masonry or concrete buildings with high relief facades and punched windows in styles ranging from Beaux Arts to Neoclassical,  Art Deco and Brutalist or mordern structure with taut glass envelopes, many with applied decorative treatments. To reconcile these two competing strategies, 2050 M street provide hyper-treatments floor to ceiling glass, without view-impeding mullions from the exterior, the panels appear scooped or concave, establishing that an all-glass building can also have a high relief facade befitting of the nation's Capitol.