Music and art are often inseparably intertwined. In the case of Iceland’s Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre, that idea takes center stage with architecture that pushes the limits of what seems ...
Iceland’s currency may be devalued, but thankfully the same thing hasn’t happened to the country’s lust for arts and culture. The capital city of Reykjavík, will soon be welcoming the Harpa Concert ...
Harpa is a mammoth that nearly died out before it could get started. Iceland has been waiting for a decent concert hall for 100 years, and in 1999 the Minister of Culture and Education decided to go ...
Harpa emerges on the border between land and sea and forms part of an extensive harbor development project in the city. The overall objective has been to expand and revitalize Reykjavik’s eastern ...
The waterfront façade of the Harpa Concert Hall is made of individual polygonal glass frames resembling sparkly fish scales, which reflect water and light, creating a kaleidoscope of luminous colors.
Laufey has released ‘A Night At The Symphony’, a new live album from her shows at Reykjavik’s Harpa Concert Hall last year. Check it out below. The sold-out gigs took place in October as part of a ...
Out of the ashes of Iceland’s economic collapse rises the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavík with an 1,800-seat main performance space, meeting rooms, exhibition spaces, boutiques, ...
Iceland's dazzling Harpa Concert Hall opened in May of this year, barely three years after the country was decimated by in one of Europe's most devastating banking failures. However, the economic ...
Well, it helped that the façades in which that great visionary Olafur Eliasson played his part evoke basalt columns on coast and islets, that the welcoming red interior of the Eldborg Concert Hall ...