Studio Anne Holtrop   United Kingdom   Titled ‘Change,’ the pavilion is set out as a scenography of climate and geology. The space reflects how matter changes under the influence of environmental conditions, namely sun, rain, gravity, and darkness. The pavilion is an assembly of three dif

Studio Anne Holtrop   United Arab Emirates   Within the landscape of King Salman Park in the capital, the complex – which includes four museums, a large trade-fair building, and connections with the ring of the park – takes inspiration from the legacy of Najdi architecture and extends into the

Studio Anne Holtrop   United Arab Emirates   Located across from Dubai’s Business Bay, this project presents an organic composition of office, hotel, retail, and cultural spaces on a waterfront site. Based on inkblot drawings, the proposal translates free forms into a dynamic language. The sele

Studio Anne Holtrop   Bahrain   In the center of Muharraq, the old Amarat Fakhro storehouse is one of the most important symbols of the pearling tradition. The property hosted coffee shops and businesses at street level where some of the pearl purchasing deals took place, while the

Studio Anne Holtrop   Defining gestures of creation in relation to materials was the starting point of the collaboration with the fashion house and its creative director, John Galliano. Taking from concepts of the firm itself – such as ‘dressing in haste,’ unlocking memor

Studio Anne Holtrop   Bahrain   The Murad House is a key part of the Pearling Path, a UNESCO listed World Heritage Site showcasing the history of the pearl trade in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The house is an essential component since the Murad family was highly involved in the pearlin

Studio Anne Holtrop   Bahrain   The architectural heritage of the pearling trade is the last testimony of a culture that defined the country’s identity. Amongst the iconic structures along the Pearling Path, a World Heritage Site, is the Siyadi cluster where Tajir Al-Lulu received

Studio Anne Holtrop   Bahrain   For centuries, the pearling economy structured the economic and social life of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Several gathering places sprang up around this activity, like the coffee shops where some of the pearl purchasing deals took place, as well as the

Studio Anne Holtrop   Italy   The pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain for Expo Milano showcases the country’s agrarian heritage, which stems from the ancient civilization of Dilmun. With ten distinctive fruit gardens, containing trees that were fruitbearing throughout the six-mont

Studio Anne Holtrop   Denmark   This project proposes a new approach to making, in which the material properties take on a key role. The fluid matter works together with the earth mould to show the interaction between intention and contingency. The resulting pieces seem at once bui

Studio Anne Holtrop   Netherlands   I nspired by the Déssin Automatique of Dadaist Jean Arp, in which he discovered chance to shape his work, the Temporary Museum started from pencil scribbles. Here, unconsciously sketched drawings become a way of discovering form that does not referen

Studio Anne Holtrop   Bahrain   The firm of the Dutch architect Anna Holtrop took on the job of bringing back and enlarging the former Customs House at the harbor of Manama. Raised in 1937, what is one of the oldest public buildings in the capital of the Kingdom of Bahrein was tran

Studio Anne Holtrop   Bahrain   The firm headed by Anne Holtrop, based in the Netherlands and Bahrein, has designed this narrow building that will keep part of the art collection of the Shaikh Ebrahim Center for Culture in the city of Muharraq. Two identically sized rooms and a cor

Studio Anne Holtrop   Netherlands   Fort Vechten is the second largest of 48 fortresses that were erected along the New Dutch Waterline, a military barrier that started to go up back in the 18th century, consisting of an 85-kilometer-long ring that could be flooded to keep the enemy at

Studio Anne Holtrop   Saudi Arabia   In the heart of the Nejd plateau, the Wadi Hanifah landscape defines a green corridor of 120 kilometers that descends to the deserts of the capital. In this protected environment, the project carves out a space from the limestone hillside to contain

Experimental and radical, material and gestural are adjectives that could define the suggestive projects of the studio led by Anne Holtrop (Netherlands, 1977). On the border between art and architecture, his work avoids typological reference and is b

Adrian Lahoud   A new territory of expression is emerging in the work of Anne Holtrop. Its impetus flows from the refusal to subordinate the inherent physical variation of matter. Because buildings need to perform in predictable and reliable ways, variation is const

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Anne Holtrop wanted to be an artist, and has become one through architectural means. Born in 1977, graduated in 2005, and with an office in Amsterdam since 2009, his first works, from the Trail House to the Temporary Museum, were artistic commissions