Harpa - Reykjavik, Iceland
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N 64° 08.995 W 021° 55.963
27W E 454624 N 7114052
Winner of several architecture prize, Harpa is an asymetric glass building located on the waterfront in Reykjavik, Iceland
Waymark Code: WMWTRZ
Location: Iceland
Date Posted: 10/13/2017
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Harpa is a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík. The opening concert was held on May 4, 2011.
Henning Larsen Architects has designed the facade of the Concert Hall in close collaboration with the local architects Batteríið Architects and the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.
The characteristic local basalt formations have provided the inspiration for the geometric facade structure.
Made of glass and steel in a twelve-sided space-filling geometric modular system called the 'quasibrick', the building appears a kaleidoscopic play of colours, reflected in the more than 1000 quasibricks composing the southern facade.
The remaining facades and the roof are made of sectional representations of this geometric system, resulting in two-dimensional flat facades of five and sixsided structural frames.
Harpa has received several awards including the prestigious European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2013.
Harpa offers 45-minute guided tours:
June - August: 09:00, 11:00, 13:30 and 15:30
September - May: Weekdays: 15:30. Weekends: 11:00 and 15:30
The strange shape of Harpa is best seen from the ocean side. See photos of our first reference below.
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