Corrugated iron houses

The cityscape of Reykjavik is made up mostly of low-rise buildings, with a few taller buildings including Iceland's first couple of skycrapers built shortly before the crisis.

In terms of housing, people live in everything from functional, modern concrete blocks to giant sprawling designer chalets with glass fronts and lawns running down to meet the sea, curiously without any walls to mark the limits of their property. However the cutest ones are the traditional houses, which are built on a wooden frame covered by corrugated iron painted in bright colours, with a little garden inside a picket fence.