Then…
Kirkjubærjarklaustur
…and now.
Leikminjasafn Íslands
Progress is ongoing but steady.
Iceland Unplugged: The Historical Survey
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In Iceland, You Can’t Escape Gravity
They call gravity a fell here, or a fall. Often both at the same time.
You can’t escaping falls. The experience of gravity below is an example of what is called a hike. Anything less than this is called a walk. Don’t confuse the two.
Below is a walk. Walks are wet. But gravity is a compensation! It’s good to keep your eye on it. Practice makes perfect.
In Reykjavik, gravity is still at work. I mean, the pot-smoking graffiti artists of Rome and New York and …? … aren’t issued ladders at customs. As a result, they walk from ground level.
Icelandic workers are better equipped to defy gravity.
They’ve been hiking, see. They know about falls. They’re everywhere. You can even fall off a road into the sea here.
Better get in some practice at balance. Off you go!
Iceland, the Do-It-Yourself Data Hub
1100 years of improvisation beats out the competition any time.
Too Many Clients to Have Time to Update Webpages!
But, don’t take it from me!
“Iceland is a highly competitive location for operation of Data Centres. Iceland has specialized in storage and disaster recovery for foreign companies offering a unique low-cost location for large International Data Centres low corporate tax and highly skilled IT labour. Iceland has built up a large-scale infrastructure that is very well-suited to meeting the new technological requirements of enterprises. This infrastructure has undoubtedly served as a major support for fast growth in the ICT industry and the fast adoption of technological solutions throughout society.”
http://www.made-in-iceland.com.cn/it/
Yeah, like that. In Iceland, the whole country is wired.
Low Cost Solutions Abound!
” Iceland is a highly competitive location for operation of Data Centres. Iceland has specialized in storage and disaster recovery for foreign companies offering a unique low-cost location for large International Data Centres low corporate tax and highly skilled IT labour. “ http://www.made-in-iceland.com.cn/it/
Yeah!
Icelandic Treehouse: A Nordic Architectural First
Reykjavik
Beautiful, isn’t it!
Those Nice Kids of Reykjavik & the Survival of the Sagas
No straying outside of the lines here!
Out on the farm, though? Well, yee-ha!
Maybe it has something to do with a love of books in the city. Used books.
And their rural versions: sheep folds.
Melárett
Doubt it? Look again! Doesn’t look like a window anymore, does it:
It looks like Iceland: fields, folds, and books in one.
Low Tech High Tech Iceland
Improvised Worlds in Reykjavik
The Dancing Houses of Reykjavik
What you can learn in a bookstore window will often change your life.
So, Where do Icelandic Architects Get Their Ideas Anyway?
The Reykjavik Urban Forest
All trees in Iceland are mysterious. Some, it seems, stay indoors and take tinctures.
Erosion in Iceland
Well, the whole island is eroded down to bare stone, but that’s not what I mean. I don’t mean a negative force but a positive one. Look how the water flowing from one of the thousands of nameless falls of the country erodes a path that leads humans to it.
And look how the erosion of lichen makes a path, which humans will follow, although it is no more even than any other line through the rock. 
And look how water carves a quite different path. By the looks of it, it was probably a farm or fishing hut path, which humans or their animals made and water has followed. 
And look how the erosion of a new post-glacial slope has concentrated its finer deposits, creating an environment for life. 
Amazing!
A Farm in Iceland 
