Icelandic firm Studio Granda's architect founders, Steve Christer and Margrét Harðardóttir, were aged 26 and 27 when their proposal for Reykjavik’s City Hall won first prize in 1987. Just three years out of the Architectural Association in London, the starry-eyed pair envisioned two bold steel and concrete volumes housed under curved roofs and connected by a ground-floor walkway.
The building’s modern appearance - quite marked in its historic and central location on the northern bank of Lake 'Tjörnin' - may have ruffled more than a few feathers when it was built, but over time, became a much-valued part of the city’s architectural fabric, evocative of its time and that generation.
