Harpa Concert & Conference Centre by Henning Larsen Architects; photo © Osbjørn Jacobsen

If music be the food of love, then where better to dine out than a world-class concert hall or opera house? Here, Architonic examines a number of recently completed architectural projects that perform as hard as the artists who take to their stages. Play on. (by Simon Cowell)

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Harpa Concert & Conference Centre by Henning Larsen Architects; Photo by Osbjørn Jacobsen

While the news about Iceland’s economy may sound more like a broken record than a harp and the last year’s Eyjafjallajokull eruption covered the country with a blanked of dreary ash cloud, the scintillating angular-glass façade of the new cultural centre Harpa dazzles like a jewel in Reykjavik’s eastern harbour. (more…)