(J_blu– flickr/creative commons license) Henning Larsen Architects designed the Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall & Conference Centre as a revitalizing element for the east harbor. The color of the black Icelandic sand forms great masses in this building and shimmer like …
Category: Iceland
(Daniel Williams– flickr/cc license Guðjón Samúelsson designed the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavik, completed in 1986 after forty years of construction and planning. Somewhere between the Cologne cathedral and the Ryugyong Hotel, the concrete structure looms 74.5m over the town. Streets converge …
(o palsson– flickr/creative commons license) Modernist Ásmundur Sveinsson designed the Reykjavik Art Museum for his sculpture displays in Iceland, completed in 1983. Untrained in architectural design, the artist merged Mediterranean elements with Northern and Egyptian ideas. The white form and …
Ingimundur Sveinsson designed the Pearl in Reykjavík, Iceland, completed for public visitors in 1991. Sveinsson added a glass dome and emptied a water storage tank for vast Saga Museum gallery space. The building also offers a revolving restaurant, …