In World War II the British and American armies occupying Iceland built extensive barrack quarters in Reykjavik and elsewhere. There were hundreds of these barracks sheltering thousands of soldiers which also worked and exercised in these buildings.

In some places army hospitals were erected with checkpoints. The British army left and the Americans replaced them in the summer of 1941.

When the soldiers moved out of the barracks Icelandic families started moving in using the barracks both as housing facilities and as warehouses until well into the sixties.

Year: 2003.