The Pearling Path, set in the Unesco World Heritage Site of Muharraq, Bahrain, is a sensitive and culturally led regeneration project, leveraging the economic, cultural, and historic context dominating the Arabian Gulf from prehistory to the early 20th century.
Bookended by locally based Studio Anne Holtrop’s Suq al Qayssareyah market and Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati’s Pearling Path Visitor’s Centre, the path itself is a 3.5km route, which traverses a series of historic houses, narrating the history of the region's pearl trade. It connects a family of careful new urban 'incisions', emphasising the understated and subdued character of the old town by bringing its industrial, horticultural, and civic heritage to the fore.
