Reykjavík City Hall
Glass civic building rising straight from a city-centre pond, home to a giant cardboard relief model of Iceland.
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This guide to Reykjavik City Hall traces the ritual that fills the pond outside it, Tjornin, every afternoon, when locals tear up loaves for the forty to fifty species of water birds that gather there, mallards, eiders, and whooper swans among them. It follows why the city eventually warned residents against the habit, and how the glass building itself, opened in 1992, sits deliberately beside the town's oldest gathering spot. Inside, a topographic model of the whole country is built from more than a hundred layers of cardboard, each one standing for twenty meters of elevation.
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