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The Pearl

The Pearl

Also known as Perlan

Year

1991

Style

Contemporary

Type

museum

Perlan crowns Öskjuhlíð, the wooded hill above Reykjavík's domestic airport, where six cylindrical hot-water tanks store geothermal water for the city's district-heating system. Five of the tanks still hold roughly four million liters…

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The Pearl
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  1. 1991

    Original construction

    Ingimundur Sveinsson

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