7th. September 2022
The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson hosts the inaugration of Í ÖNDVEGI featuring the GEIR table & chair

A presentation of Icelandic crafts and design in the southern reception room of Bessastaðir, the residence of the President

Instigated by the Federation of Icelandic Industries (SÍ) in co-operation with the Icelandic Design Centre

16 August 2022
Studio Granda celebrates 35 years of architectural practice

19th.-22nd. May 2021
The Countless Colours of Icelandic Design
Exhibition of Product and Industrial Design, Ceramic Design, Fashion Design, Textile, Graphic Design
Epal

2nd. February 2021
Drangar nominated for The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2022

29th. January 2021
Drangar awarded the Icelandic Design Award 2020

16:00 29th. July 2020
Exhibition opening
Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture
Galerii Jaroslava Fragnera, Prague

20:00 18th. June 2020
Exhibition opening
Hafnarhús - pakkhús hugmynda í miðborginni / Depot of Ideas in the City Centre
Listasafn Reykjavíkur - Hafnarhús Reykjavík Art Museum - Harbourhouse

4th. February 2020
Speaker Steingrímur J. Sigfússon & Chief of Staff Ragna Árnadóttir take the first shovel for the new building of the Icelandic Parliament

Archive

December 2018
Nygårdstangen bicycle & footbridge, Bergen, inaugrated

March 2018
Hvað svo? What Next?
Exhibition of new development in downtown Reykjavík
Reykjavík City Hall

Hvernig? How? architectural competitions symposium

Önnur sæti? Runners-up?
Exhibition of runners-up competition proposals for well known Icelandic buildings
Arion Bank HQ, Reykjavík

December 2017
Reykjanesvegur-Krýsuvíkurvegur highway interchange inaugrated

September 2017
Orbis et Globus unveiling
Grímsey

16 August 2017
Studio Granda celebrates 30 years of architectural practice

March 2017
Hvað er í gangi? What's Going On?
Exhibition of new development in downtown Reykjavík
Reykjavík City Hall

December 2016
Studio Granda awarded first prize in the international competition for the new building of the Icelandic Parliament

April 2016
Fellsvegur highway bridge inaugurated

February 2016
Lecture : More Today Than Yesterday Meira í dag en í gær Iceland Academy of the Arts

January 2015
Austurstæti 5 awarded Njarðarsköldur - Shop of the Year 2015

November 2015
Everything to Eternity nominated for the Icelandic Design Award 2015

October 2015
Everything to Eternity inaugurated

March 2015
H71a Awarded the DV Cultural Award for Architecture 2015
Iceland Academy of the Arts - Department of Performing Arts in Nyja Bíó - inaugurated

February 2015
H71a shortlisted for for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2015

November 2014
H71a nominated for for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2015
H71a nominated for the Icelandic Design Award 2014

October 2014
Studio Granda & EFLA enginers awarded first prize in the competition for a footbridge over Markarfljót

September 2014
Barcelona International Biennial of Landscape Architecture, Barcelona 2014

March 2014
First Day of Issue of stamp series Icelandic Contemporary Design V featuring Hringbraut Footbridge
Graphic design Örn Smári Gíslason for Íslandspóstur
Nyja Bíó / The Historic Heart of Reykjavík shortlisted for "Domus Restoration and Preservation" International Prize for Architectural Restoration, IV Edizione 2014
Studio Granda & Kristinn E. Hrafnsson awarded first prize in the competition for a monument to the arctic circle on Grímsey island

February 2014
Lecture: Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ

January 2014
Lecture: Schwarzbrotreihe, Architecture Student Union of the University of Stuttgart

October 2013
GAP (Global Architectural Profiling) Exhibion opening, Wunderlich Gallery, Mebourne

March 2013
Lecture: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

February 2013
NORDIC COOL 2013 Exhibition opening The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
Nyja Bíó awarded Icelandic Concrete Award 2013
Lecture: University of Edinburgh

November 2012
Island und Arkitektur? Exhibition opening & seminar, Nordische Botschafen Felleshus, Berlin

Oktober 2012
Nyja Bíó nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2013 http://www.miesbcn.com

August 2012
Studio Granda 25 years

June 2012
NEW NORDIC - Architecture & Identity Exhibition opening Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

May 2012
MATTER OF NECESSITY, The urgency of building tomorrow Exhibition opening Palazzo Pretorio, Cittadella

February 2012
Studio Granda awarded first prize in the competition for the Kárastadastígur footbridge in the Thingvellir UNSECO site
SIX HOUSES NORTH Exhibition opening, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning

January 2012
Studio Granda & Kristinn E. Hrafnsson artist shortlisted for the Monument to Freedom and Unity in Leipzig

November 2011
Prêmios do Design Nórdico Nordic Design Awards exhibition opening Museu da Casa Brasileira, Sao Paolo, Brazil

October 2011
Nyja Bíó
The Historic Heart of Reykjavík awarded Honorary Award, Prix European d’architecture Philippe Rotthier European Prize for Architecture «The Time of Renovation» 2011
Prize ceremony and exhibition opening, Architecture Museum La Loge, Brussels

September 2011
Iceland and Architecture exhibition opening Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt

August 2011
Íslensk Samtídahönnun Icelandic Contemporary Design 2009, exhibition opening Estionan Museum of Applied Art and Design

November 2010
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2009 exhibition opening, Stad en Architectuur, Leuven

February 2010
Three footbridges over Hringbraut & Njardagata awarded Concrete Award 2010

October 2009
Three footbridges over Hringbraut & Njardagata awarded best project 2005-2007 by the Icelandic Road Adminstration
Hof shortlisted for the Barbara Cappochin International Biennial Architecture Prize 4th. Edition 2009
Íslensk Samtídahönnun Icelandic Contemporary Design 2009, exhibition opening, Ketilshús, Akureyri
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2009 exhibition opening, Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya

May 2009
Íslensk Samtídahönnun Icelandic Contemporary Design 2009, exhibition, Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir

April 2009
Hof shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2009

Febuary 2009
Awarded Kaldárselsvegur-Krysuvíkurvegur highway interchanges and pedestrian crossings with Efla consulting engineers

10th. January 2009
Public opening of Crate installation at FREEZE, Anchorage, Alaska

December 2008
Hof nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2009

August 2008
Hof nominated for the Myndstef honorary award 2005

May 2008
Hof awarded the Dedalo Minosse International Prize for Commisioning a Building, L'Arca Special Prize 2007/2008 Seventh Edition

November 2007
Supermarket at Bifröst opens

October 2007
Icelandic Architecture Awards exhibition, Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavík
Studio Granda nominated for the Icelandic Architecture Award for three footbridges over Hringbraut & Njardagata and the Hof residence

September 2007
Studio Granda awarded the Icelandic Visual Art Award for Design Sjónlist 2007
Studio Granda in association with Gullinsnid & Argos awarded first prize in the Search for Ideas competition for the historic heart of Reykjavík, 'Kvos'

August 2007
Sjónlist 2007 Icelandic Visual Arts Awards exhibition, Akureyri Art Museum
Studio Granda 20th. anniversary

May 2007
BASK Fashion shop opens
Magma/Kvíka Contemporary Icelandic Design exhibion, Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsadir, Reykjavík
Sjónlist 2007 Icelandic Visual Arts Awards, Design Award: Studio Granda nominated for the Vogaskóli school extension and the Hof country residence

January 2007
50+12 Recent Icelandic Architecture exhibition, City Hall, Reykjavík

September 2006
50+12 Nye Tendenser i Islandsk Arkitektur Icelandic Architecture exhibition at Arkitektskolen Aarhus

August 2006
Sjónlist 2006 Icelandic Visual Arts Awards exhibition at the Akureyri Art Museum

May 2006
Sjónlist 2006 Icelandic Visual Arts Awards, Design Award: Studio Granda nominated for the Student accommodation & research wing at Bifröst Business School

December 2005
Inauguration of Student accommodation & research wing at Bifröst Business School
Three footbridges over Hringbraut & Njardagata inagurated

August 2005
Bifröst Business School nominated for the Myndstef honorary award 2005

February 2005
Studio Granda with SS Verktaka awarded contract for Vogaskóli secondary school extension
Studio Granda awarded second prize in the open competition for the Gufunes cemetery service building

April 2004
Exhibition TRANSFORME Design Islandais : Nouvelle Génération VIA/Industries Françaises de l'Ameublement

February 2004
Snow Show opening

August 2003
Studio Granda & Línuhönnun Engineers awarded first prize in the two-stage competition for three footbridges over Hringbraut & Njardagata

January 2002
Studio Granda shortlisted for the new Art Galley and Public Square, Middlesbrough, England

December 2001
Studio Granda awarded Icelandic Environmental Services Association Award 2001 for Reykjavik art Museum
Studio Granda finalist Blueprint Architecture Awards 'Best Public Building Refurbishment' for Reykjavik art Museum

August 2001
Studio Granda awarded first prize in the invited competition for Bifröst Business School

February 2001
Studio Granda shortlisted for the new Stonehenge Visitors Centre, Salisbury Plain, England

February 2000
Studio Granda shortlisted for the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA

Lectures

2017
Iceland Design Center smalltalks on design & architecture No.9
Kaldalón, Harpa

„Bæði og“

SO BE IT Beyond Sustainability Lecture Series, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
""Both and" „Bæði og“ Iceland Design Center smalltalks on design & architecture No.9 Kaldalón, Harpa

2016
More Today Than Yesterday Meira í dag en í gær Iceland Academy of the Arts

2014
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ
Schwarzbrotreihe, Architecture Student Union of the University of Stuttgart

2013
University of Edinburgh

2012
Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning

2011
Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt
Pælingar um Gæði / Contemplations on Quality, Planning and building department, Reykjavík
HiST, Sør-Trøndelag University College, Trondheim
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Architekturforum, Freiburg
Bergen Arkitektskole, Bergen
Architecture School of the International University of Catalunya, Barcelona

2009
Snertifletir, Reykjavík Art Museum, hafnarhús
Space.CITY, Seattle

2008
What Makes a House a Home?, Sóltún, Reykjavík
University of Akureyri
Department of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, NDSU, Fargo, North Dakota

2007
Swedish Association of Architects, Stockholm
Arkitekthøgskolen i Oslo

2006
School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene
Department of Architecture, University of Oregon, Portland
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Scandinavia House, New York

2005
Iceland Academy of the Arts
Facoltà di Architettura di Pescara, DSSARR, Pescara
Inarch, The National Institute of Architecture, "I lunedì dell'Architettura", Rome
Iceland Academy of the Arts

2004
Iceland Academy of the Arts
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Mississippi State University, Jackson

2003
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Washington University In St. Louis

2002
Cardiff University
University of the West of England, Bristol

2001
Bartlet School of Architecture, London
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Bergens Arkitekforening Lecture, Bergen
Building a Vision: Four Architect's Views, Public Presentation, ICA Boston

2000
The Vancouver League MacMillan/Bloedel Lecture, Vancouver
Alaska Design Forum, Fairbanks
Alaska Design Forum, Anchorage
Dalhousie University, Halifax

1999
University of Washington, Seattle
University of California, Berkeley
RWTH Aachen

1998
Universität Karlsruhe
Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg, Tübingen
University of Oregon, Portland
Master of Architecture, International Program, Helsinki
University of Toronto
The University of Tennesse, Knoxville

1997
University of Illinois at Chicago
John Dinkerloo Memorial Lecture, University of Michigan
University College Dublin

1995
Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavík
George Simpson Lecture, University of Edinburgh
RIBA, London

1994
Berlage Institute, Amsterdam
Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin
Fachhochschule, Biberach

1992
AIA, Dublin

1991
OAF, Oslo
Arkitekthøgskolen i Oslo
AIA, Dublin
Bartlett School of Architecture, London

1988
Städelschule, Frankfurt

Symposia

2019
List í almannarými : Þýðing og uppspretta / Art in the Public Realm
Conference, Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavík
Lecture : List (.....) Byggingarlist

Hverfisgata; a dialouge between the urban past and the present
A symposium in celebration of the 100th. anniversary of the Embassy of Denmark in Iceland
Safnahúsið, Reykjavík
Lecture : An Ordinary Street

Nordic Architecture Fair, Gothenburg
Seminars : The Power of Beauty / Mobility in the City

Dagur Grænni byggðar 2019, Háskólatorgi, Háskóla Íslands, Reykjavík
Lecture : Sjálfsþurft

Steinsteypudagurinn 2019, Grand Hotel, Reykjavík
Lecture : Engin framtíð án fortíðar

2018
Tampere Design Week - Identity in Architecture
Lecture : LOST & FOUND Ruminations on island life

NORDIC BUILT - Sustainable Tranformation and Environmental Design
informing sustainable architecture - the STED project symposium
Copenhagen

2017
ARTSCAPE CZECH REPUBLIC - ICELAND - NORWAY Landscape Festival
International Conference
Plseň

2014
Saskatchewan Association of Architects Conference, Saskatoon

2013 RIBA Sussex, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

2012
Island und Arkitektur? seminar, Nordische Botschafen Felleshus, Berlin

2011
Arkitekturdagen i Stockholm

2010
Otras Islas Other Islands International Symposium, Tenerife

2009
Material & Spirit in Architecture symposium, Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir

2008
Local identity - the icon dilemma, World Architecture Festival, Barcelona
FÍSOS, Ísafjördur
AAA Banff Session, Banff, Alberta

2007
3 Hús / Three houses, Fagstefna:Framsækin Hönnun, Reykjavík

2004
TAF International Celebration of Architecture, Røros

2002
Royal Society of Architects in Wales Annual Conference, Cardiff
Constructing Place, Auckland Castle, Co. Durham

1995
Literature - Architektur - Literature, Wiesbaden
RIAS Convention, Glasgow

1993
III Nordic / Baltic Triennial, Tallin

1990
11 Cities / 11 Nations International Symposium, Leeuwarden