AUSTURHÖFN /  Tónlistarhús samkeppni - 2001 Hvernig stækka á miðbæ Reykjavíkur This proposal was created for the Reykjavík Music Hall competition, where a building was to be built on a no-mans land at the harbor. The idea was to counter the competition's anti-urban parameters and provide a new framework for an expanded downtown Reykjavík, with plenty of urban building lots for future business, public buildings and housing, with an urban waterfront. The new streets would be actual urban streets and connect directly into the existing downtown area while a generous expansion landfill rather easily created as required in the future. Enlargement of the midtown area of Downtown Reykjavik as a real city structure is here proposed as the priority, instead of proposing another singular sculptural entity. Unfortunately, due to the terrorist attack on 911 and our close proximity to WTC, the proposal was not submitted. It was, however exhibited in my exhibition in the Museum of Design and Applied Arts in Garðabær Iceland in 2002, along with my other design work.

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