Austurhöfn - tónlistarhús

Contractors and designers

• Designed by Henning Larsen Architects and Batteríið.
• Artist Ólafur Elíasson designed the facade and provided the principle for the overall facade design.
• IAV hf., Iceland Prime Contractor Ltd., is the principal contractor of the whole project.
• Acoustics Design by Artec Consultants Inc, New York USA.

Building Strategy

• Music Hall and Conference centre with meeting facilities.
• Suitable for a broad range of concerts and cultural events.
• Flexibility to host big and small events without one interfering with the other.
• Conference centre with meeting facilities.
• In-house catering and restaurants.
• Equipped to highest standards.
• Exhibitions, promotions and public events.

Conference facilities

• A large conference hall seating up to 750 people
• Two meeting rooms seating 63 people each
• Conference services
• Eight smaller meeting rooms

Key numbers

• Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre is 28.000 square meters (258.000 sq ft) in size.
• The bottom slab is 8.000 square meters.
• The building is 43 meters tall (141 ft).
• 30.000 cubic meters of concrete will be cast in the whole building.
• The whole building site with adjacent building is 60.000 square meters (15 acres).
• 2.500 tons of construction steel and 4.000 tons of reinforcement bars will be used in the building.
• 200.000 cubic meters of soil were removed from the site before construction began.

Main consulting companies in the project have been:

• Henning Larsen Architects
• Batteríið Architects
• Olafur Eliasson
• IPC (IAV)
• Artec Consultants
• Ramboll
• Mannvit Engineers
• Hnit Consulting Engineers
• Efla Engineers

Other consulting companies:

• ASK Architects
• Almenna Consulting Engineers
• Verkis Consulting Engineers
• Verkhönnun Engineers

Artistic adviser

• Jasper Parrott- International consultant
• Vladimir Ashkenazy - Artistic adviser