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16-1068: The award was established in 1993 with an annual rock award given by the Félag íslenskra hljómlistarmanna (FÍH) ( Union of Icelandic Musicians ); since then, it has developed into a multi-category event held usually in January or February for awards of the previous year. Since 2002, the event has been sponsored by the Icelandic Music Association known as Samtónn . Winners: Winners: Winners: Winners: Selected winners: Held at Harpa on 14 March 2014. Selected winners: Held at Harpa (concert hall) in February 2015. Winners: Held at Harpa (concert hall) in March 2016. Selected winners: Held 2 March 2017. Selected winners: Harpa (concert hall) Harpa ( Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhar̥pa] , English: Harp)

32-571: A curtain, proscenium, and any of the traditional stage machinery. The first director of Harpa was Halldór Guðmundsson . The current director of Harpa is Svanhildur Konráðsdótir. Harpa is operated by Portus , a company owned by the Icelandic government and the City of Reykjavík. In 2013, the building won the European Union's Mies van der Rohe award for contemporary architecture. In 2017,

48-577: Is a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík , Iceland. The opening concert was held on 4 May 2011. The building features a distinctive colored glass facade inspired by the basalt landscape of Iceland. Harpa was designed by the Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects in co-operation with Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson . The structure consists of a steel framework clad with geometric shaped glass panels of different colours. The building

64-627: Is featured in the film Heart of Stone from 2023. European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award is a prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe , Barcelona , 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe'. The Prize was created in 1987 through an equal partnership among

80-518: Is of a cellist playing, and is modelled on the Danish cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson , who played constantly for Ólöf as he sat for her. When the Orchestra was based at its previous home at the Háskólabíó, the statue was located on Hagatorg, but it followed the Orchestra in 2014. The Icelandic Opera performs at the concert hall even though the venue is primarily designed for concerts, lacking

96-552: Is the first purpose-built concert hall in Reykjavík and it was developed in consultation with artistic advisor Vladimir Ashkenazy and international consultant Jasper Parrott of HarrisonParrott . It houses the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the offices of The Icelandic Opera . In the water next to Harpa is located the sculpture The Musician (1970) by the Icelandic sculptor Ólöf Pálsdóttir . The statue

112-683: The European Commission , the European Parliament and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The award is open to all the works completed in Europe within the two-year period before the granting of the prize. Nominations are submitted by independent experts, the national architecture associations and the advisory committee of the Prize, and then evaluated by a jury organized for each cycle. The five finalist works are visited by

128-550: The Iceland Symphony Orchestra , Harpa is a popular conference centre and performing venue, and has hosted many other events and summits since its opening. The fourth Council of Europe summit was held at Harpa in May 2023, with many European leaders in attendance. The Arctic Circle organisation holds its annual summit at Harpa. The European Film awards , Iceland Airwaves , Reykjavik Arts Festival and EVE fanfest have been hosted at Harpa. In its unfinished state, Harpa (under

144-418: The building's 10 year anniversary, Eliasson made 12 new light works to exhibit on the glass, one to be exhibited for each month of the year. In 2014 Eliasson first granted other artists access to the building's advanced lighting system, when artists Atli Bollason and Owen Hindley exhibited the interactive art piece PONG, based on the classic arcade game Pong , for the city's Culture Night ( Menningarnótt ). This

160-551: The earlier name Tónlistarhús ) appears in Gæska: Skáldsaga by Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl , where it is temporarily turned into a mosque with the addition of a minaret. It was the setting of an episode of the Netflix series Sense8 . It appeared in the Netflix series Black Mirror on the episode " Crocodile ". It is the site of the "rose ceremony from hell" in season 26 of The Bachelor from 2022. Harpa

176-587: The jury, which chooses a prize winner and names an Emerging Architect winner. As of 2016, a new category, the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA), highlights the final degree projects of recently graduated architects, landscape architects and urban designers. YTAA, as an inherent part of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, is organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe with

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192-711: The opening concert on 4 May 2011, Iceland Symphony Orchestra performed under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy with the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson as soloist. The concert was broadcast live on RÚV , the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. The related hotel, retail and office developments were delayed, but resumed construction by 2018 and by 2023, the development was complete. The Reykjavik Edition Hotel, managed by Marriott International opened in 2021 along with retail and restaurant units; Landsbankinn moved into their new headquarter building in early 2023. The building

208-552: The structure was uncertain until the government decided in 2008 to fully fund the rest of the construction costs for the half-built concert hall. For several years it was the only construction project in existence in Iceland. The building was given its name on the Day of Icelandic Music on 11 December 2009, prior to which it was called Reykjavík Concert Hall and Conference Centre (Icelandic: Tónlistar- og ráðstefnuhúsið í Reykjavík ). In

224-421: The venue held the annual World Yo-Yo Contest , where over a thousand contestants from over 30 countries competed for the six champion titles. It was only the second time ever the contest was held in Europe. The glass façade of the building consists of 714 LED lights , 486 in the eastern part of the building and 228 in the western part. These lights display a video work designed by Olafur Eliasson . In 2021 for

240-495: Was part of a redevelopment of the Austurhöfn area dubbed World Trade Center Reykjavík, which was temporarily abandoned when the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis took hold. The development included a 400-room hotel, luxury apartments, retail units, restaurants, a car park and the new headquarters of Icelandic bank Landsbanki . Construction started in 2007 but was halted with the start of the financial crisis. The completion of

256-547: Was the first time the façade was set to other uses than playing videos, and PONG was shown again the following year as a part of the Sónar Reykjavík festival. This marked the beginning of wider use of the light façade, as Harpa, Studio Ólafur Elíasson and the City of Reykjavík started having open applications for artistic proposals to utilize the façade the following year, and the winners got help with implementation from digital artist Owen Hindley. In addition to hosting

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