The Pearl

Year

1991

Architect

Type

building

Perlan crowns Öskjuhlíð, the wooded hill above Reykjavík's domestic airport, where six cylindrical hot-water tanks store geothermal water for the city's district-heating system. Five of the tanks still hold roughly four million liters each …

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