ROUTE 02

The Nordic Light Route.

Iceland and Sweden, where the architecture is the weather. Harpa's glass scales reflect the aurora; the Ice Hotel rebuilds its concert hall from the Torne River every winter.

The North does the architectural work that the Mediterranean does in air and water: cold light, transparent volumes, rooms that change every winter and back again. This route reads as a five-day pilgrimage from Reykjavík to Jukkasjärvi, peaking inside an ice cathedral that did not exist in October and will not exist in May.

The rooms on this route.

Harpa Concert Hall

Interior of Eldborg main hall at Harpa, geometric glass façade by Olafur Eliasson

VENUE_002 · IS

HARPA CONCERT HALL

REYKJAVÍK · 64.15°, -21.93°

Glass scales reflecting Arctic light, designed by Olafur Eliasson. Perched on Reykjavík's waterfront where the North Atlantic meets the city skyline. Acoustically flawless.

TYPEModern Concert Hall

FREQClassical · Ambient · Electronica

PATHNordic Light

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The Ice Hotel Concerts

Ice church carved from ice and snow at the Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi

VENUE_013 · SE

THE ICE HOTEL CONCERTS

JUKKASJÄRVI · 67.85°, 20.59°

Inside a cathedral carved from frozen river water, every note reverberates like a prayer trapped in time. The hall is rebuilt by hand each winter from ice cut from the Torne River.

TYPEAmbient Ice Acoustic Experimental

FREQAmbient · Choral · Neoclassical

PATHNordic Circuit

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