In March 2013 the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture (IIT CoA) published NOWNESS to coincide with the investiture of Wiel Arets as its Dean. The publication–which formalizes the focus of the school's 2013-2014 academic year–was recently honored with an 'In Book'... View full entry »
The Allianz Headquarters is a hybrid-office and the pinnacle of a master planned mixed-use district on the edge of Zürich’s city center. Comprised of a 20-story tower and a 5-story annex, these two components are externally linked by a series of four bridges, and vertically linked by... View full entry »
Alessi, the esteemed Italian manufacturer of kitchen products and accessories, recently launched the 'Eat.it' cutlery designed by Wiel Arets. Crafted over a period of six years, in order to ensure proper ergonomics at such a refined scale, the set originated from a symmetrical design in which the... View full entry »
Construction commenced today on the IJhal–the main pedestrian passageway within Amsterdam's Centraal Station–which parallels the river IJ and is the convergence point for the city's multitude of transportation types. The station and its immediate surroundings are metamorphosizing to... View full entry »
This past weekend the American Association for the Advancement of Science held their annual meeting in Chicago–the third largest city in the United States of America–to explore and discuss 'recent developments in science and technology'. Wiel Arets joined a panel discussion on February... View full entry »
The College of Architecture (CoA) at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) announced this week the creation of the 'Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize' (MCHAP) and the 'MCHAP for Emerging Architecture'; both will recognize works of architectural eminence constructed throughout North and South... View full entry »
Campus Hoogvliet is a cluster of six buildings that together compose one academic and socially focused campus, located just outside of Rotterdam. These six new buildings–a sports center, an art studio, a safety academy, 100 residential units within one building, and two schools–have... View full entry »
The New York Times published the Jellyfish House in the digital edition of the paper on January 16, 2014–as well as on page D3 of the New York print edition, with the headline: 'A Pool That’s Over the Top'. The house's pool, which is cantilevered 9 m from the roof, features a... View full entry »
Located in Marbella, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, the Jellyfish House’s neighboring buildings block its view onto the nearby sea. Appropriately, it was chosen to cantilever the house’s pool from its roof, so that the beach and sea can always be seen while sunbathing or... View full entry »
The B’ Tower, located in the center of Rotterdam, is composed of three distinct volumes of retail and residential program, and is a contiguous extension of Marcel Breuer’s 1955 ‘Bijkenkorf’ department store. Standing at a height of 70 m, its plinth encompasses retail while... View full entry »
Custom designed for the B' Tower–a high-rise residential building located in Rotterdam–the Siamese chair was designed in collaboration with Dutch furniture manufacturer Lensvelt. It is composed of oak, with fabric from the Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat. Previously custom made... View full entry »
Located in Berlin Zehlendorf, Truman Plaza parallels the adjacent Clayallee and is part of a larger master plan balancing its historic context with the integration of a delicate onsite forest. Constituting offices, retail, health, and sports facilities that together form an urban cluster... View full entry »
This housing project is composed of two building blocks located within a former industrial area that's since been redeveloped into a residential neighborhood named Stripe S, in the city of Eindhoven. The E' Tower forms the entry to this new development, with 110 apartments dispersed across... View full entry »
The AvB Tower–a hyper-hybrid academic building located in The Hague–was on October 31st, 2013 officially opened at an inaugural ceremony held in its 220 seat auditorium and attended by the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, who delivered a keynote speech whose central theme was... View full entry »
On November 14, 2013 Wiel Arets will be in conversation with Phyllis Lambert, the Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal. Lambert graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 1963 and was the... View full entry »
Perspectives is documentary on the life and work of architect Wiel Arets, produced by George Vogelaar and Geert van Gemert, which premiered as part of the 'Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival' in 2011. This documentary will be broadcast on 'TV Maastricht', a television channel localized to the... View full entry »
Located on the southern edge of Rotterdam, Campus Hoogvliet is a new educational and cultural center set for completion in autumn 2013. This area of the city is characterized by its mid-twentieth century housing developments, and this new campus seeks to rectify the social and cultural exchange... View full entry »
The AvB Tower is a hyper-hybrid academic building and a dynamic hub threading The Hague’s central train station to the adjacent urban envelope, accommodating students and faculty with a program of housing, retail, and dining. Surrounded by an expansive and newly constructed pedestrian... View full entry »
After presentation in Leipzig, Buenos Aires, and Porto, the 2012 'Best Dutch Book Designs' will be exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Wiel Arets: Autobiographical References, designed by renowned Dutch designer graphic designer Irma Boom and edited by American academic Robert... View full entry »
This new building–'Site D'–is an integral component of ‘Europaallee’, a currently emerging district adjacent to Zürich’s central train station. A plinth of retail programming anchors the project to its site, while its upper volumes consist of flexible office... View full entry »
WAA has been invited to participate in the upcoming exhibition 'XS Architecture', a platform for products – of a smaller scale – created by architects, artists, and designers. The exhibition will include a wide-range of products, including chairs, kitchen accessories, prototypes, and... View full entry »
Located in the center of Maastricht, in the south of the Netherlands, the project is an extensive renovation of a former post office that dates from 1915. A 'protected' state monument, the project consists of 19 short-stay apartments whose design has been dictated by the building's pre-existing... View full entry »
The first extensive publication on the work of Wiel Arets Architects in nearly a decade, TC Cuadernos: Wiel Arets 1997-2013 includes 35 projects designed by the studio over the last 16 years, intensely investigating the most recent buildings, products, competitions, and exhibitions. Featuring many... View full entry »
The AvB Tower is situated on the Anne van Buerenplein, which serves as the lobby for this hybrid tower in the center of The Hague. With a program of 400 student 'guest-rooms’–with the first five floors combining retail, lobby, restaurant, offices, lecture hall, and library–the... View full entry »
Campus Hoogvliet is a new educational and cultural area located on the southern edge of Rotterdam composed of six buildings encompassing two vocational schools, an art studio, sports building, lyceum, restaurant, retail, and housing facilities. Each building has an outdoor patio linking the... View full entry »
The E' Tower is located in the Stadium Quarter, an area next to the Phillips Stadium in Eindhoven, which is an integral part of the Stripe S urban plan created by the landscape firm West 8. The original brief for the area includes the E' Tower, the E’ Block, and a slender end piece of the... View full entry »
The Allianz Headquarters is an office complex linked and interlocked by a series of bridges and voids. Once completed, the Allianz Headquarters will be composed of a high-rise tower and a five story building, both with a program of mainly office space, set within an urban plan based on a modified... View full entry »
Schwäbisch Media is an office building for a publishing company active in many facets of both traditional and new media. Six protruding glass-walled cubes define and compose the project, with their proportions and dimensions based on the surrounding traditional German fachwerk villas. These... View full entry »
NOWNESS is the first publication of the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture under the direction of Wiel Arets, published to coincide with the investiture of Arets as the college's newest Dean. Presenting the curriculum and ambitions for the 2013-2014 academic year, NOWNESS... View full entry »
The Allianz Headquarters, an under construction office building in Zürich, Switzerland, was recently awarded the 2013 ‘AIT Innovation Award for Architecture & Technology’ for its interior heating and cooling ceiling panels, which feature concrete core activation and concealed... View full entry »
