Project: Traffic
Type: International competition
Year: 2000
Size: 14.500 m2
Client: The Icelandic Ministerium of Foreign Affairs
Collaborators: MVA arkitektar, Holm & Grut arkitekter
Location: Keflavik, Iceland
Status: 1. Prize, built
Awards: Nomination for the Mies van der Rohe award,
DV cultural prize, selected as the best building in Iceland
Photographer: Gudmundur Ingolfsson, Pall Stefansson
The building design is influenced by geological and geographical qualities unique to Iceland. These qualities are transformed into characteristic spaces, such as the gorge through the building, which is clad in liparit, an Icelandic stone quarried in the mountains nearby.