Regiocentrale Zuid by Wiel Arets Architects is Finished

The office building in Maasbracht, the Netherlands, will house the country's infrastructure department.

Jan Bitter

Wiel Arets Architects (WAA) announced Thursday that work has been completed on Regiocentrale Zuid in Maasbracht, the Netherlands. The 19,915-square-foot office building is the headquarters for the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment’s Rijkswaterstaat, which manages the country’s roads and waterways.

WAA has offices in the Netherlands and Switzerland. The firm’s eponym, Wiel Arets, Assoc. AIA, also serves as the dean of the College of Architecture and John and Jeanne Rowe chair of architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Aaron Betsky reviewed the firm’s Jellyfish House in ARCHITECT’s June issue.

Jan Bitter

Jan Bitter

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Sara Johnson

Sara Johnson is the former associate editor, design news at ARCHITECT. Previously, she was a fellow at CityLab. Her work has also appeared in San Francisco, San Francisco Brides, California Brides, DCist, Patchwork Nation, and The Christian Science Monitor.

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