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Höfði (Icelandic pronunciation: ​[ˈhœvðɪ]) is a house in Reykjavík, Iceland, best known as the location for the 1986 Reykjavík Summit meeting of President Ronald Reagan of the United States and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union. This meeting was an important step towards ending of the Cold War. Within the building, the flags of the United States and the Soviet Union are cross-hung to commemorate the meeting.

Höfðatorg Tower 1 is an office tower in Iceland. The building is located close to downtown Reykjavík. It is 74 metres (243 ft) high and has a total of 19 floors, from the ground up. The tower's construction was completed in 2009. It is a part of a complex called Höfðatorg (Icelandic pronunciation: ​[ˈhœvðaˌtʰɔrk]).The name Höfðatorg is taken from the house Höfði, which is very close to the building.

The National Archives of Iceland (Icelandic: Þjóðskjalasafn Íslands [ˈθjouðˌscaːlaˌsapn ˈistlan(t)s]) is the national archive of Iceland, located in Reykjavík. The National Archives, holding materials on Icelandic history from the era of the sagas in the 12th century to present, contributes greatly to historical research on the rights and role of Icelandic society.

Borgartún (Icelandic pronunciation: ​[ˈpɔrkarˌtʰuːn]) is a street in Reykjavík, Iceland, that in years leading up to the country's economic crisis became the centre of the city's financial district. Three of Iceland's four largest banks have their headquarters in the area: Arion banki, Íslandsbanki and Straumur. A 19-story skyscraper, part of the Höfðatorg development, is located at Borgartún. As of 2012, the skyscraper is completed but the rest of the development remains unfinished. The location of the skyscraper has been controversial because it is located opposite a low-density residential street. Also located in Borgartún is Höfði, a house built in 1909. Initially, it was the house of the French consul in Iceland. It was the place of the Iceland Summit when Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met there in 1986. It is now mainly used for ceremonies for the Reykjavík City municipality. The western end of Borgartún houses a complex of buildings where the offices of many departments of the Reykjavík city government, including a centralised service centre, are housed. The service centre is home to the Icelandic national registry, Þjóðskrá Íslands.

Hlemmur (Icelandic pronunciation: ​[ˈl̥ɛmmʏr̥]) bus station was one of the two main bus terminals for Strætó bs in Reykjavík, Iceland. As of January 2016, the only main terminal is Lækjartorg. All the red 'trunk' routes operated from Hlemmur, while the green general routes all stopped there. The 2002 documentary Hlemmur tells the story of homeless people who spent their time in and around the bus station.In 2015 it was announced that Hlemmur Station would close and be replaced by a food court.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Icelandic: Utanríkisráðuneytið) is an Icelandic cabinet-level ministry founded 18 November 1941. The current Minister for Foreign Affairs is Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir.

Occupy Reykjavík (OR) was a collaboration that included peaceful protests and demonstrations against economic inequality, social injustice and corporate greed in Reykjavík, Iceland.

The Reykjavík College of Music (Icelandic: Tónlistarskólinn í Reykjavík) is an Icelandic conservatory of music that was founded in 1930 and is the oldest surviving college of music in the country. It offers music education at intermediate, continuing, and university levels. Students graduate with a degree equivalent to a B.A. in performance, singing or composition or a B.Ed. in Music education.The Reykjavík College of Music also operates a symphony orchestra (Orchestra of the Reykjavík College of Music), whose purpose is to train students in performance.

Iceland College of Education was a normal college in Iceland. It merged with the University of Iceland in July 2008 and is now called the School of Education. Enrollment was around 2300 students with more than half of them being distance learning students. The university offered B.A., Bf B Ed. and B.S degree programmes as well as M.Ed. and doctorate degrees. The main campus is located in Reykjavík. The main building is at Stakkahlid and the art department is nearby at Skipholt 37. The division of Sport and Physical Education is located at Laugarvatn campus in the south of Iceland, approximately 90 kilometres from Reykjavík.

365 is a media company in Iceland. At its peak, it was a mass media company and operated several TV and radio stations, and one newspaper. 365 also rebroadcast foreign television channels over its digital TV system. It started broadcasting Bylgjan in 1986, Stöð 2 started in 1986, Stöð 2 Sport (Sýn) in 1995, Bíórásin in 1998, and it started publishing Fréttablaðið in 2001. In 2017, it sold most of its assets to Fjarskipti ehf, the parent company of Vodafone Iceland.

Sundhöll Reykjavíkur (lit. "Reykjavík Swimming Palace", often shortened to Sundhöllin, but that name can also apply to other indoor swimming pools in Iceland), is the oldest purpose-built indoor swimming pool in Reykjavík. It was designed by the Icelandic architect Guðjón Samúelsson and opened in 1937 at Barónsstígur, close to the elementary school Austurbæjarskóli. Along with Austurbæjarskóli and Landspítali, it was one of the first buildings in Reykjavík that made use of geothermal water that the public utility Laugaveitan pumped via a 3 km long pipe from Laugardalur. Originally the building was supposed to be finished in 1930, but work stalled due to the Great Depression. The building's exterior is a minimalist white that is almost Art Deco in style with tall narrow rectangular windows. Inside arches on the south side of the pool and the tiled changing rooms are other notable features. The main pool is 25 by 10 metres (82 by 33 ft) and with a depth from 0.9 to 4 metres (2 ft 11 in to 13 ft 1 in). There are also hot tubs, and Guðjón's Hallgrímskirkja can be seen from the sundeck.When the pool opened it soon became the main place for teaching swimming, which had become obligatory for schoolchildren in 1927. It also became the main training pool for poolsports. Initially there were gender-segregated days each week when people could swim naked. The swimming pool had an important function as a public bath when bathrooms were still uncommon in Reykjavík. In 2010 Icelandic filmmaker Héðinn Halldórsson made the documentary film The Palace (Höllin) about Sundhöllin and the people who frequented it at the time. The film follows a group of elderly people who attend workout sessions in the pool early in the morning, and the staff who receive them. In 2017, after a year of renovations, a new reception and an outdoor pool were added to Sundhöllin. The outdoor area was designed by VA Arkitektar. It has unheated changing areas and showers, a 25 meter long 5 lane swimming pool (much shallower than the indoor pool), a playpool, a large hot tub with massage spouts, a cold tub with water that is around 10 °C, and a sauna. New changing rooms for women were added below the reception, and the old ones closed for renovation. The new arrangement was criticised as women who use the indoor pool now had to cross the outdoor area first. The only indoor passageway from the new changing rooms was through the (now closed) old changing rooms. The old women's changing rooms were reopened in March 2022. In 2022 the city had to pay 3.5 million Icelandic krona in damages to a woman who fell and broke an arm on a mat that had been placed in the outdoor area in 2018. The surface has since been treated to make it less slippery.