Íþróttahús Fram

The hall does not sit on a hill or look out over the sea; it sits where the city grid holds its shape in Háaleiti og Bústaðir, tucked into the Safamýri complex that was planned in 1958 and built through the 1960s. The building belongs to Knattspyrnufélagið Fram, which has kept the name Íþróttahús Fram through the decades, even as the club moved its football operations to a new sports hall in Úlfarsárdalur that opened in 2022. What remains here is less about football and more about the way the space has been layered: a renovation and expansion around 2011 by Arkídea Arkitektar added multi-purpose banquet rooms and training halls alongside the courts, and the complex is also associated with Alftamyrarskoli, a local school. The outdoor pitch at the site, Stakkavíkurvöllur-Safamýri, sometimes called Framvöllur, carries an artificial turf surface, but inside the hall the surface type is not documented in the sources that have been checked. Enough to fill the place when the Icelandic Handball Premier League (Olís-deildin) brings a match to Reykjavík, and the building's address is Safamýri 26, the same place that has always been home to Fram's non-football activities. There is no record of the hall being renamed; the club simply calls it Íþróttahús Fram or Íþróttahúsið Safamýri. The website www.fram.is lists the venue among its facilities, though the pages do not specify whether the indoor floor is wood or synthetic. The hall does not host matches for the top flight of Icelandic football, but it is where the club has kept its court when the outdoor seasons end and the indoor calendar begins.