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Customs House Bahrain – Anne Holtrop

Customs House Bahrain – Anne Holtrop

2015

Anne Holtrop approaches architecture with an artist’s sensibility, drawing form from chance, material behavior, and contextual traces. The Customs House in Bahrain continues this exploration—its cast facades and sculpted forms emerging from the imprint of sand and site.

Blurring the boundaries between architecture and art, Holtrop’s design resists conventional typologies. Influenced more by artists than architects, his work unfolds as spatial installation—textured, elemental, and quietly monumental. The Customs House, like many of his projects, challenges expectations of permanence, function, and authorship—an architecture that feels both found and intentionally formed.

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