A snow day snow array! I thought of punching out that one stubborn entry, but let it be in the spirit of wabi-sabi. It’s like the Great British Baking Show’s missing raspberry.
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!
A lovely arrangement from inside Hallgrímskirkja, in Reykjavik. Sunlight passing through the congruent window on the opposite side of the church creates what looks like a translation. I wonder if there’s a time of year when the images match up exactly?
