"Partly because there were 600 people involved in the construction, partly because we had been talking about building a concert hall for our philharmonic orchestra for 40 years and we thought if we did not do it now we never would, but also it was because we judged that not to go ahead with it would prolong the crisis in people's minds."
Kultur- och utbildningsminister Katrín Jakobsdóttir i The Independent om anledningarna till att konserthuset Harpa i Reykjavík färdigställdes i stället för att rivas.
