Building design at its visionary best engages,exhilarates,and inspires. It possesses a quality—almost indescribable—that embodies design ingenuity,connection to place,and,above all,imagination. But today’s architectural monuments aren’t meant only to be admired from afar.

Together they conceived an asymmetrical structure clad in a skin of LED-illuminated glass-and-steel bricks,which every evening gives Icelanders a show as dazzling as the northern lights.