Architect Joshua Ramus, founder of REX, sees Washington, D.C., as a blend of glass boxes among neoclassical, Beaux Arts, Art Deco, and Brutalist buildings—the latter of which, as the de facto style of government for its cheap production from the 1960s to the ‘80s, spreads across much of the District like what Ramus calls “a sea of taupe.” Given the District’s building height limitations, developers have often sought to maximize leasable square footage by building out to the extents of the zoning envelope, resulting in a seemingly endless stretch of glass curtainwall bisecting the city’s downtown.
In Washington, Ramus’s latest work is less about thinking outside the proverbial—and in this case, glass—box than it is about redefining the glass that composes it. The result is a modular, concave, unitized system that allows for nearly mullion-less glazing that wraps two sides of 2050 M Street, which is slated for completion in the coming months.
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