Anne Holtrop (b. 1977, Netherlands) started his own architectural practice in 2009. Currently, the studios are based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Muharraq, Bahrain. In 2015, the first two major buildings designed by the Studio, Museum Fort Vechten and the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain, were completed. The Studio is currently working on new stores worldwide for Maison Margiela with the first one due to open on Bruton Street, London this year; an exhibition pavilion for CERN in France, and several UNESCO-listed heritage buildings in Bahrain: Murad Boutique Hotel, Siyadi Pearl Museum and the Qaysariya Suq. Anne Holtrop is currently an associate professor at ETH Zurich. In 1997, Holtrop received the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation’s Charlotte Köhler Prize for Architecture. In 2016, he was awarded the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize and the 2G monograph series dedicated its 73rd issue to Studio Anne Holtrop in the same year.