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Akureyri í öndvegi
2005
Proposal for an extension of existing downtown in Akureyri, Iceland.





MUSIC HALL

2001
Proposal for a music hall
or rather an urban integration in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland.
Tónlistarhús Reykjavíkur, skipulagsmistök. Rétt lausn er blönduð miðbæjarbyggð til norðurs
, ekki shopping mall, takk fyrir. To be sent in to a competition in 2001 but due to 911, got presented as an idea at the Design museum in Iceland in spring of 2002.




SELTJARNARNES

2000
Town center master plan. Design proposal for a downtown environment, including housing and commercial spaces.








GRAFARHOLT
1996
Project proposal for a suburb town. Master plan, Reykjavík, Iceland. Creating a town instead of a typical cul de sac suburb. The project explored varying densities of urbanity and functionalities aimed at enveloping the characteristics of the empty hill in order  to reinforce its
distinct character.




 

ÍSAFJORÐUR
1996
Redesign of a fishing town main street,  Iceland. The proposal put forth the idea of completing the current urban gap with a contextual building strategy. This as a response to the competition outline for merely cosmetically improving  the street. 





SELTJARNARNES
1994
Urban edge, Iceland. Project aimed at clarifying the edge of Seltjarnarnes with a road and a dense urban planning partially based on the concepts in Alftanes.







ÁLFTANES
1990-1991
Town center, Iceland. Thordarson's urban prototype for an approach dealing with Icelandic conditions of wind, green areas, parking and general urban traffic patterns and circulation restructuring of current urban design policies.
 

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