Newsletter | June 2011  
09.06.2011
 
  Contents
Successful opening of Harpa
Designer of the Year 2010
Prequalified for the Carlsberg City District
Sustainable Summer School
  Successful opening of Harpa  
  More than 30,000 guests visited Harpa for the opening concerts stretching over several days in May. Through a varied musical programme, the users of the building and the audience celebrated the inauguration of the concert hall in the new Icelandic Concert Hall and Conference Centre.

The construction of the 28,000 m2 Concert Hall located on the east harbour of Reykjavik started four years ago. The building design has been developed by Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson, the local architecture company Batteriid Architects and Artec Acoustic Consultants.

Harpa will be home to the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera and with the opening in May, a musical programme with sold out concerts over the summer has been initiated. Almost every tenth Icelander visited Harpa during the opening, and the newspaper The Telegraph gave the building five stars in a review. The final, official inauguration of the building will take place on 20 August when the building facades are also expected to be completed.

Read the online magazine about Harpa at www.henninglarsen.com. The magazine tells about the ideas behind the building and the artistic design and features interviews with Peer Teglgaard Jeppesen, Director and Partner at Henning Larsen Archtiects, Ósbjørn Jacobsen, Design Manager for Harpa and artist Olafur Eliasson.

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Designer of the Year 2010
Henning Larsen Architects has been selected as ‘Designer of the Year’ at the official gala event of International Design Awards (IDA) in Los Angeles, USA.

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Prequalified for the Carlsberg City District
Henning Larsen Architects and a team consisting of Polyform Architects, Dorte Mandrup Architects and Signal Architects have been prequalified for the competition for developing the new station area in the Carlsberg City District.

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Sustainable Summer School
NCC Construction Denmark and Henning Larsen Architects are behind a joint, innovative summer school focusing on energy renovation in the future.

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