Wiel Arets Architects

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Wiel Arets Architects
Type Private
Industry Architecture, Industrial Design, Urbanism
Founded1983
Headquarters Amsterdam, Netherlands
Number of locations
4: Amsterdam, Maastricht, Munich, Zürich
Key people
Wiel Arets
Number of employees
20
Website WAA

Wiel Arets Architects is an Amsterdam, Maastricht, and Zurich based multidisciplinary architecture and design practice founded by Wiel Arets in 1983. [1]

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Utrecht University Library

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References

  1. "Home". wielaretsarchitects.com.
  2. "Luxuswohnungen statt Rummelplatz".