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The historic Randall School property in Southwest D.C. — which art collectors Don and Mera Rubell purchased for $6.5 million from the Corcoran Gallery of Art back in February — will get a new look, courtesy of three designers.

The Rubells and the Telesis Corporation, who are developing the site together, have hired Bing Thom Architects for the principal architectural work. BTA is best known, or will be best known, around Washington for Arena Stage’s Mead Center, which is scheduled to open this fall, just five blocks away from the Randall School site.

Landscape architects Oehme van Sweden, whose projects in D.C. include the Federal Reserve, the World War II Memorial, and the forthcoming Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, round out the design team.

Plans for the renovated Randall School site include a hotel and contemporary art museum, but it will also feature elements of the original school building itself — and it’s up to architectural history and historic preservation firm EHT Traceries, Inc., to keep it that way.