ANNVIL is interdisciplinary studio that collaborates with creative professionals from various fields, including architects, designers, strategists, urbanists, scientists, social anthropologists, developers and thinkers with a purpose to stimulate multi-dimensional discussion where diverse opinions from a different perspective are involved. Most of our partners are based in the Baltics, Norway and among other European countries.
Anna Bates (née Butele) (1980) founded Annvil in 2004. Based in Riga, Latvia, Annvil has become an industry leader, with a diverse portfolio including hospitality, commercial, residential, hi-rise, office and masterplan design. Annvil has participated in several art and design exhibitions, most recently contributing to the BORDERS exhibition at the 2016 Venice International Architecture Biennale. In 2017, Anna Bates established Cobalt, an architecture and design company in Baku, Azerbaijan. Cobalt has grown to 25 employees in less than a year, and its artistic direction is setting a new frontier for the architecture in the region.
Our invitation is to think design thoughtfully, meaningfully, relationally and above all else – ontologically.
