Alþingishúsið, Reykjavik, a photo from Reykjavik, Reykjavik

Photographer's Note

Alþingishúsið, Reykjavik

Alþingishúsið is the Parliament House of Iceland. It houses the parliament. It is composed of two different part. The old building built (visible in the reflection on the left) in 1881 with hewn Icelandic stones (Dolerite) by Ferdinant Meldahl and its modern glass expansion built by Sigurður Eiarnarsson finished in 2002.

Play with lines, reflection, Deepness. These persons seems to walk in an other dimension.

From Wikipedia:
The Alþingi is the national parliament - literally, the "all-thing" - of Iceland. It was founded in 930 at Þingvellir and this event marked the beginning of the Icelandic Commonwealth. Even after Iceland's union with Norway iin 1262, the Althing still held its sessions at Þingvellir until 1799, when it was disbanded by danish royal decree and discontinued for some decades. It was restored in 1844 as consultative assembly for Denmark and as Legislative assembly from 1874 when it moved to Reykjavík, where it has resided ever since.
The republic of Iceland has been established, at a session of the Althing held at Þingvellir on 17 June 1944.

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Elaine_Blath (8471) 2008-03-12 6:55

Hi Samuel,

very good informative note, I appreciate that; the shot is very graphical, I like the urban tones, well seen and composed!

Take care, Ivana

joaschmidt (565) 2008-03-17 5:22

I like that one a lot Samuel. I most say: I start to get tired of all thouse photoshopped landscape pictures from Iceland.
Iceland is also the Alþingishúsið in Reykjavik, which I think is one of the well done buildings in Iceland.
TFS
Regards Joachim