The Pearl

Year

1991

Architect

Type

building

Perlan stands on the summit of Öskjuhlíð hill as the most structurally inventive building in modern Icelandic architecture: Ingimundur Sveinsson's glass dome rests on six cylindrical geothermal hot-water storage tanks, each holding approxim …

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