2G 73: Anne Holtrop: No. 73. International Architecture Review

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Until very recently, the young Dutch architect Anne Holtrop had only built a few small pavilions and various installations between art and architecture. Outside of conventional architectural circuit, and more related to the art installations, these extremely poetic pavilions consisted of small-scale spatial concepts and personal research on materials. However, the work of Holtrop took a leap of scale with two projects finished in 2015: the Museum Fort Vechten in Bunnik (near Utrecht, The Netherlands) and the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain for the Milan Universal Exhibition of 2015. The former, a museum built within the enclosure of the New Hollandic Water Line fortifications, dug into the ground to create dark concrete walled galleries opening onto a courtyard artificial. The second, the National Pavilion of Bahrain is enclosed by a tall concrete wall that contains an interior maze of galleries, corridors and gardens.

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Valerio Olgiati is an internationally active Swiss architect. Giovanna Borasi is Chief Curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal. Maaike Lauwaert is editor at Metropolis M, a bimonthly magazine on contemporary art and works as a freelance curator.