Old Harbor and Grandi

Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre stands along the waterfront with a shimmering facade of twelve-sided glass modules. These panels, designed by artist Olafur Eliasson in collaboration with Henning Larsen Architects, mimic the…

The Ingólfsgarður Lighthouse is a square, yellow tower made of corrugated iron that stands four meters tall at the elbow of the south breakwater in Reykjavík’s main harbor. Positioned seven meters above sea level, the small structure…

The Looking Seawards statue, titled Horft til hafs in Icelandic, features two fishermen cast in bronze, dressed in traditional oilskin waterproofs. They stand together on the shore of the Old Harbour, their figures leaning slightly as they…

The ICGV Óðinn is a grey, offshore patrol vessel moored at the Reykjavík Maritime Museum, easily identified by its high, purposeful bow and utilitarian deck equipment. Built in Denmark in nineteen fifty-nine, the ship served the Icelandic…

The Reykjavík Maritime Museum sits directly on the harbor in a concrete building that functioned as a fish freezing plant from nineteen forty-seven until nineteen ninety-one. You can identify the site by the large coast guard vessel, the…

Grandi Mathöll is a food hall inside a converted fish warehouse at Grandagarður sixteen in the old harbour district of Reykjavík. The building retains the industrial appearance of a former fish processing factory, a facility once used to…

The Marshall House is a tall, concrete building defined by its large windows and a strict, rhythmic arrangement of exterior columns and beams. It sits in the Grandi harbor district, where its industrial scale remains a visible anchor of…