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.