Compensating for the lack of parking spots in the former capital is a network of open, flexible constuctions which serve at the same time to give the urban fabric a new character altogether.
At the end of the 19th century, the German mathematician August Möbius discovered his famous strip, a continuous band with only side and one edge. Perhaps influenced by this non-orientable surface, or perhaps fascinated by the infinite folds of Deleu
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
A bundle of slender metal diagonals breaks the traditional hierarchy of pillars and beams, altogether altering the Cartesian space inside the prism by offering fragmented views...
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
Aside from protecting a series of ruins in the Pearling Path, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the building becomes a foyer for the medina and a public space for the people of Muharraq.
Dar Al Jinaa and Dar Al Riffa are two similar buildings, part of an urban renewal project in the historic center of Muharraq in Bahrain. The ambition is to give a public face to the ancient community of pearl divers and their musical and cultural tra
