Math Photo: A Most Mathematical Building

Here are some images from Harpa, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Harpa is home to the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera, and is one of the most mathematical buildings I have ever seen.

The face of the building is a solid wall of glass prisms whose faces are hexagons and pentagons.

Here’s a look up through the wall from below.

Different perspectives highlight the different polygons.

Whoever designed this beautiful building certainly knew the theory of pentagonal tilings!