Winners of the Iceland Northern Lights Rooms competition have been announced

The Iceland Northern Lights Rooms competition tasked participants with envisioning a guest house concept for visitors to privately observe and directly engage with this unusual geographic setting. The chosen site, located adjacent to Mývatn lake, spans across about 970,000 square feet of Iceland's northeast region. Competition entries were prompted to design a building complex featuring a series of separate, detached guest bedrooms scattered across the site. The key attraction of the each room would be an unobstructed view of the sky allowing guest to view the Northern Lights from the comfort of their own beds.

1st Prize: "In-Visible" by Kamila Szatanowska and Paulina Rogalska
Country: Poland 

2nd Prize: "Bleikur" by Francois Bodlet
Country: Belgium

3rd Prize: "Northern Lights" by Catarina Oom de Sousa, Carla Romagosa Girós, and Eftalia Proios Torras
Country: Spain

Student Award: "Marimo" by Magdalena Pająk
University: POLITECHNIKA ŚLĄSKA

Green Award: "Of crater and hearth" by Chang Yuan Max Hsu and Hadeel Ayed Mohammad
Country: United States