Reykjavik did not impress me architecturally. Most buildings and houses seemed simple and efficient. Of course, having said that, there were exceptions.

I’ll point out the two buildings that most impressed me: the Harpa, their Concert Hall, and Hallgrimskirkja, which is a huge concrete Lutheran church.

The Harpa is Reykjavik's Concert Hall and conference center. It has a steel framework and geometric glass panels of different colors. The Harpa was completed in 2011 and is located right on the ocean front.

This gives a better look at the geometric glass panels with the different colors of glass.

The main hall seats about 1800 people and can be entered from different floors. The Harpa also has dining facilities and conference facilities seating hundreds of people.

Reykjavik's largest landmark is called Hallgrimskirkja which is a Lutheran parish church. It's about 245 feet tall. This church opened in 1986 after 41 years of construction.

Hallgrimskirkja is very spartan inside with very little outside of its white walls. But it does have a huge pipe organ with 5,275 pipes. The church was crowded with a long line of people waiting to go to the top observation deck.