Gunnlaugur Halldórsson
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Gunnlaugur Halldórsson (1909–1986) was an Icelandic architect. He is considered[by whom?] the first Icelandic modernist architect.[1][2][3] He was educated in Denmark.[4]
Some of his works include the 1940 expansion of Landsbankinn,[5] Háskólabíó (co-designed by Guðmundur Kr. Kristinsson)[6] and the re-designed of Bessastaðir (the official residence of the President of Iceland) in the style of Danish manors.[4] He designed the Sólheimar tower blocks in Reykjavík; the first of their kind.[7]
