About Gunnlaugur Halldórsson
Lived 1909 – 1986 (aged 76–77). Gunnlaugur Halldórsson was an Icelandic architect.
Gunnlaugur Halldórsson (1909–1986) was an Icelandic architect. He is considered the first Icelandic modernist architect. He was educated in Denmark. Háskólabíó (co-designed by Guðmundur Kr. Kristinsson) and the re-designed of Bessastaðir (the official residence of the President of Iceland) in the style of Danish manors. He designed the Sólheimar tower blocks in Reykjavík; the first of their kind.
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Icelandic architect
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Gunnlaugur Halldórsson was born in 1909 in Vestmannaeyjar.
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Gunnlaugur Halldórsson died in 1986.
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Gunnlaugur Halldórsson was an architect.
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Gunnlaugur Halldórsson was Icelandic.
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