Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre
About Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre
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Lisa Dahl
"🤩 Harpa Concert Hall is one of my favourite places in Reykjavik. I visit it every time I'm in Iceland.
🌟 Its award-winning design was created out of 3D crystal columns meant to resemble basalt rock.
🥰 To truly appreciate its beauty, you need to look at it from different angles as it changes with the light.
📸 You're guaranteed to get a great photo! On sunny days, the geometrical blocks cast interesting shadows and light.
📸 Harpa is mesmerizing at night. It dazzles with changing lights meant to resemble the northern lights.
🎻 Harpa is also home to the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. And the long-running comedy show "How to be Icelandic in 60 Minutes."
⏰ HOURS:
Sunday to Tuesday 10 am - 6 pm
Wednesday to Saturday 10 am - 8 pm
😊 NOTE: Even if Harpa is closed, it's still worth visiting the outside."
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Nally Preseault
"Harpa has been standing in Reykjavík for a little more than a decade, but it's already one of the city's most iconic buildings. The steel-framed, glass-paneled concert hall opened in 2011 as the anchor of the redeveloped waterfront. Each of its window contains an LED light, so light shows can illuminate the building at night. This is the home of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera. Other concerts and performances regularly fill its four venues, as well. Even if you don't have event tickets, you should still visit Harpa. Hnoss Restaurant sits on the ground floor, and the upper levels have great views of the city and the water.
Bonus: It's the perfect warm spot to watch New Year's Eve fireworks."
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Pedro Pereira
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"The Harpa building is a concert and conference center in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, in the western district of Miðborg. The architecture studio Henning Larsen, the artist Olafur Eliasson and Artec Consultants Inc. participated in its design. It is located in front of the sea. Due to the crisis of 2008 and 2009, the project was temporarily stopped. The building was inaugurated in 2011. In 2013 it received the Mies van der Rohe Prize.3 It is the headquarters of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera."
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