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Sami Heiskanen Ilan Volkov, the organizer of the festival, on the podium. Approaching historic Reykjavik by the main harbor road, every traveler will encounter Harpa, a glittering iceberg of a building designed by Olafur Eliasson and built by Henning
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When the global economy collapsed in 2008, Iceland was the first casualty: Its credit-driven banks went bust, and inflation rose 18%. Now the economy is bouncing back, with unemployment levels cut in half, thanks partly to its status as one of the
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Guillermo Granell A tour guide is showing people around Harpa , Reykjavik 's new-ish, architecturally bonkers conference centre and concert hall. There are banners for the first Icelandic Sonar draped around its many foyers. "Today," she cheerfully
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Kristjan Pall Kristjansson of the band Of Monsters and Men performs during Iceland Airwaves Music Festival at Harpa concert hall. Photograph: Matthew Eisman/WireImage As north Atlantic gales batter the harbour of Reykjavik and dark creeps over the
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Mike McGregor for the Observer Judging by Future Feminism a spoken manifesto played out on track two of this extraordinary live album Harpa may just be Antony Hegarty's spiritual home. Live albums don't often contain seven-minute passages in which
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On the last day in Iceland before heading to Maastricht for TEDx , I had a chance to visit the Harpa concert hall and conference center in Reykjavik. This is a marvelous structure, wrapped in a assortment of glass shapes and colors that look
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As the name indicates, the overall objective of the project is to expand and revitalise Reykjavik's eastern harbour with a new downtown plaza, a shopping street, a hotel, residential buildings, educational institutions, and mixed industry. Danish
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Harpa review Reykjavik's dazzling new concert hall basks in the reflective glory of Olafur Eliasson's inspired design A little bit disco': the Harpa concert hall in Reykjavik. Photograph: Nic Lehoux Photograph: Nic Lehoux There are three reasons to
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