FS Student Housing and the contractor Ístak recently signed a contract on the building of Iceland´s largest student housing project. The student residence will be on the campus of the University of Iceland at Sæmundargata 21 in Reykjavík. The project is designed by Yrki architects...
Yrki architects have signed a contract on the founding of Hlíðarhryggur. The foundation is a collaboration of Sannir Landvættir, Íslensk verðbréf, Yrki architects, the City of Akureyri, Verkís Consulting Engineers and Umsýslufélagið Verðandi and is based on Yrki architects´ proposal for the touristic development of...
At a public meeting at Reykjavík City Hall, Sólveig Berg presented the project for 156 apartments to be built at Móavegur in the suburb of Grafarvogur by the nonprofit housing foundation Bjarg. The presentation can be seen here. The meeting was streamed online....
The daily newspaper Fréttablaðið featured the other day an interview with Elín Mjöll, architect at Yrki architects. The interview can be read here....
Two main themes were on the agenda of this year´s planning convention Skipulagsdagurinn that was held at the theatre of Gamla Bíó on the 15th of September: the planning of the central highland of Iceland and the urban planning of citys and towns. On behalf of...
At the end of August the staff of Yrki architects went on an educational trip to Aarhus in Denmark, one of Europe´s cultural capitals 2017....
Yrki architects won the 1st prize in an invited competition for the urban planning of the areal of Heklureitur. The competition was hosted by the City of Reykjavík in collaboration with the Association of Icelandic Architects and the companies Hekla and Reitir, owners of real...
Minister of Health Kristján Þór Júlíusson broke the ground for the National University Hospital of Iceland´s new patient hotel....
The port authority´s weighing station in Þorlákshöfn won this year´s A´Design honorary award....
Sólveig Berg has been appointed by the Association of Icelandic Architects as a jury member for the urban planning competition on the site of the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service at Efstaleiti....