Exposing The World

Iceland: Reykjavik

A Small Cozy Capital

Most of Iceland’s social culture, as well as its public offices, is concentrated in this city of 130,000.

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64 degrees 6 minutes north

Reykjavik may be the world’s northernmost national capital, but it’s always the busiest place in Iceland, with 64% of the total population.

Even at this chill latitude, the Euopean passion for sidewalk dining persists
Alcohol for home consumption is sold only at this chain of official shops
Even at this cold latitude, the Euopean passion for sidewalk dining persists
Restaurants are everywhere
…and so are expressive graffiti
The Hotel Reykjavík Centrum
Dining at the Centrum
This is at almost 10 pm, but the summer days are long here
One of the proliferating number of pedestrian streets in town
This street is being converted to pedestrian use
Apartment blocks
A bicycle as a street sculpture
City Hall
Decorating a shipping container
In a residential front yards, a cat watches the passersby
A garden sculpture

On the Waterfront

The Old Harbor is devoted mostly to fishing and whale excursions, but it also has a new concert hall.

The Harpa Concert Hall
The hexagonal motif of the Harpa is a reference to columnar basalt
The walls of the Harpa reflect.s the sea, and the flags outside

The Hallgrímskirkja

though locally called ‘The Rocket’ this Lutheran church is actually designed to evoke columnar basalt.

It is consecrated to poet Hallgrímur Pétursson.


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