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 ...
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 ...
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 ...