Lukas Kühne   Iceland   On Iceland’s east coast, Tvisöngur is a sound sculpture consisting of five inteconnected concrete domes with heights between two and four meters. Each dome has a resonance that corresponds to a tone in the island’s five-tone harmony tradition... [+]

Henning Larsen   Iceland   In spite of the economic crisis, Iceland saw the completion of its most iconic building: Harpa. Its skin has been designed in collaboration with the artist Olafur Eliasson. 

Valdimar Harðarson   Iceland   This house, the owner of which is also its designer, sits on the western side of Midfell mountain, in the southern area of Iceland. Aiming to blend the volume with the intact natural landscape of the surroundings, to minimize its presence and to prot

Ingimundur Sveinsson   Iceland   Just South of the Arctic Circle, Iceland sits on top of one of the most active and unpredictable volcano belts in the world. The volcanic activity is directly related to the presence of hot springs in the island’s high temperature areas. The exploita

Studio Granda   Iceland   Standing on a prominent spot on the banks of the lake Tjornin, the Reykjavik City Hall is formed by two long structures sharing a ground floor. The larger one, placed parallel to the lake bank, accommodates the functions involving the public, while t

The Icelander Einar Thorsteinn was one of the Pythagorean architects: those who see in geometry not a rigid scheme, but an intuitive living tool. This was thanks to his admiration of Buckminster Fuller and to his collaboration with Frei Otto, also re

Una espectacular fachada diseñada en colaboración con el artista Olafur Eliasson es la protagonista del nuevo auditorio y centro de conferencias que acaban de construir los daneses de Henning Larsen en Reikiavik. El edificio, que alberga tres salas d

Peter Davey   When the Second World War came to an end, the Nordic countries, though still strongly related by similar culture, were in very different economic shape. Finland had fought the Russians twice, then the Germans, and in the process had lost important pa

Antón Capitel   Nordic architecture does not seem to have existed before the 20th century for the rest of the world. But in the era of modern revolution it became a universally admired cultural power, and some of its masters came to be held as true paradigms of mode

Juhani Pallasmaa   Recently I had the opportunity of seeing an exhibition of Nordic painting of the turn of the century entitled ‘The Northern Light’ at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. The paintings were cleverly hung thematically irrespective of their country of ori