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Ice Hotel
IceHOTEL, Sweden and indeed the world's first ice hotel, was founded in 1989 in Jukkasjärvi, in the northern Swedish city of Kiruna, and this year the Ice Hotel has been operating for 26 years. This is not only a comprehensive hotel offering accommodation, bars, catering, conferences, weddings and more, but also the largest ice and snow art gallery in Sweden. The hotel's walls, floors, roofs, etc. are made of ice and snow as materials. Open only between December and April, this hotel is probably one of Sweden's most desirable winter experience destinations after the capital, Stockholm. Every year, ice hotels sift through hundreds of designs from around the world and build them, so that year after year, no year is a repetition of the previous year, and no room has ever been repeated from another room. Every room in every year is designed to be unique, only in this season, there is no next time. (All images in this article are from ICEHOTEL)
ICEHOTEL received more than 130 design proposals in 2015, and the completed Season Ice Hotel will be open from December 11, 2015 to April 15, 2016. (Image by ICEHOTEL, photo by Christopher Hauser)
Water nurtures life, and water nurtures art. The Torneälven River, which flows through Yukasyelvi, gave birth to the Ice Hotel, where the Ice Hotel builds new hotels every year. Art, nature, simplicity, is the philosophy of the Ice Hotel. After April every year, the ice hotel gradually melts, and the melted water returns to Mother Earth to form a recycling cycle. Ice Hotel is open from 11 December 2015 to 15 April 2016. The ice hotel has about 65 rooms, the number of which is not fixed every year, the area is about 5500 square meters, and about 30,000 cubic meters of ice and snow mixture are used every year, about 1,000 tons of ice. Every November, artists from around the world, along with local workers, work together to build the season's Ice Hotel, a palace of art unique in the world. With day visitors plus overnight visitors, the Ice Hotel has about 50,000 to 60,000 guests per year. In the 2016 season, what is the ice hotel's only and most beautiful ice and snow house in the world? Let's enjoy the latest season of Winter Dreams.
Ice Chapel at ICEHOTEL, designed by Edith Maria Van der Wetering, Wilfred Stijger and Niall Magee, photographed by Asaf Kliger. Simple lines, a fusion of elements of planets, suns and stars, the artist gives people a place to think by expressing the greatness of the universe, but also a place to meet – not only to meet others, but also to meet themselves. The sun, moon and stars shine on each other under the arched roof, and people are particularly small in the universe. Will you meet the past you, or the future you? Will you meet a sad you, or a happy you?
ICEHOTEL's Ice Bar "Tribute", designed by Elin Julin, Marinus Vroom and Jens Thoms Ivarsson, photographed by Asaf Kliger. The theme of this season's Ice Bar is to pay tribute to all the artists and laborers involved in the design, creation and construction of the Ice Hotel in the past, as well as to other artists around the world, such as musicians, dramatists, entertainers, etc., for the joy they bring to the world every day. The designers hope that when guests come to the Ice Hotel, they can see those beautiful works of art.
The hall of ICEHOTEL, designed by Erik Fankki and Arne Bergh, photographed by Asaf Kliger. Designed by Erik Fankki, a craft artist from the Swedish minority Sami ethnic group, the hall is inspired by the world of the Sami people, and its form, mythology and tradition are reflected in the details of the design. Sami scripts, musical instruments and religious patron saints are all reflected in the design. The culture of this ancient people has a mysterious feeling and power that attracts people to explore.
ICEHOTEL's art suite "Elephant in the Room", designed by Anna Soofia Mååg, photographed by Asaf Klige. Designer Anna Sofia Mååg designed the beautiful unicorn in 2014, and this season she designed an African elephant about three meters tall, staring at the head of the bed. "Sometimes, at some point in your life, you feel as if there's an elephant in your room. I designed this room as a traveler, when your face is facing an elephant, open your eyes and see what meets you. "This elephant is imposing but gentle, accumulating great strength but standing still. The encounter with an elephant, the scrutiny of oneself, and the reflection of life are all condensed in this moment.
ICEHOTEL's art suite "Hibernate", designed by Wouter Biegelaar and Viktor Tsarski, photographed by Asaf Kliger. The two designers have been co-designing the Ice Hotel for years, inspired by the drapes of cloth left by a family wrapped in items after leaving an old luxury salon. Everything feels peaceful and lazy, and even every molecule in the air is stationary.
ICEHOTEL's Art Suite "Under the Arctic Skin", designed by Rob Harding and Timsam Harding, photographed by Asaf Kliger. The Spanish father and son interpret the Arctic environment in a Mediterranean way and how the extremely cold climate of the Arctic affects everyday life. This blue, transparent ice bed is like a small boat swimming in the sea of ice, the sky is low, the air is thick, but life multiplies from generation to generation, sailing forward with the boat of time.
ICEHOTEL's art suite "Counting Sheep", designed by Luca Roncoroni, photographed by Asaf Kliger. The designer said that some guests came to the ice hotel and were worried that they would not be able to sleep because it was too cold, so let's count the sheep. The room was dynamic but balanced, plus some sheep were hidden and not easy to find. How many sheep can you find in the room? After counting Mianyang, if you still can't sleep, then you can count the spherical knots on Mianyang's body.
ICEHOTEL's art suite "The Flying Buttress", designed by Anna Katrin Kraus and Hans Aescht, photographed by Asaf Kliger. A flying buttress is a supporting structural component that soars across the lower secondary space (e.g., aisles, small prayer rooms, etc.) connected to the footing of the rib cage on the top high wall, and is used to balance the lateral thrust of the rib vault against the wall, usually in the form of half an arch. The designers found inspiration from this structural component of the building and designed the suite. They created several arches of different orientations and sizes out of ice and snow, paying homage to the Gothic style. This slightly empty and slightly cool feeling, as if it were a sparsely visited Guanghan Palace, only illusion, no reality.
ICEHOTEL's art suite "The Power of Love", designed by Sebastian Scheller and Kristina Möckel, photographed by Asaf Kliger. Designers describe their design as a machine room of love, and they design huge ice tubes and barometers of love that capture energy and light, turning them into visions and fantasies. They wanted the visitor to lie in bed, and the only limit left was imagination, which they could imagine and project on a snowy screen across the bed. The only question is, when the power of love is as hot as fire, will it melt this ice bed?
ICEHOTEL's Art Suite "X, Y and Z" (X, Y & Z), designed by Anna Baumgarte and Liubov Moskvina, photographed by Asaf Kliger. Using tangrams, stars and mountains, the designers interpret the relationship between time, space and our early experience. One often has the impression of a place one has never seen before, and even if you have been to this place, it will be different. Space and geometric forms are confined to a certain point in time, and abstraction and figuration meet at a certain point, which is a feedback to the form and concept of the ice hotel: the hotel was created only for the existence of the moment, and then melted into water and returned to the world.
ICEHOTEL's Art Suite "Born in This Life" designs Jose Carlos Cabello Millán and Javier Alvaro Colomino Matassa, photographed by Asaf Kliger. "Time" is the theme of this suite, Cabello Millán has designed the Ice Hotel several times, and the common feature of his works is that he expresses love and life in huge abstract sculptures. Time flies, and when guests lie in bed, they can see the history and the future at the same moment, capturing the feeling of that moment. Two parallel walls represent the past and the future, with time represented by a wavy circular tube, and the bed in which the guest sleeps, representing the present. This room feels like a time machine. Perhaps at some unpredictable point in time, it will travel through some untouchable channel to some unimagined time and space.
ICEHOTEL's art suite "Momo's", designed by Lotta Lampa and Julia Gamborg Nielsen, photographed by Asaf Kliger. The name is inspired by a German novel, The Ambassador of Time Momo, which tells the story of how the Grey Men stole people's time and deprived them of their imagination, joy, friendship and peace. The designers created a miniature surreal landscape that emphasizes the story and the meaning, which was written in the 1970s but is still relevant today. How the forces of invisible consumerism and capitalism dominate our daily lives, and how we lose our time and happiness.
ICEHOTEL's art suite ,Eye Suite, designed by Nicolas Triboulot and Cédric Alizard, photographed by Asaf Kliger. Nicolas Triboulot had visited the Ice Hotel thirteen years earlier and dreamed of one day being able to return to the Ice Hotel. Together with Cédric Alizard, he created a moving universe in which waves, volutes, and sharp corners responded to and combined to form a single dynamic. The waves of light turn, the flow of eyes, or time? Is it an aftertaste, or a reflection? When the ripples flow past your eyes, in your heart, what is left?
ICEHOTEL's art suite "The Labyrinth Saga", designed by Clara Lindencrona and Kristin Borg, photographed by Asaf Kliger. This inspiration comes from the eighteenth-century Ice Palace of the Russian Empire, but adopts the natural form of a Nordic fairy tale, using large sculptures of ice and snow to create a dreamy and strange feeling. Brushing aside the mist and crossing the forest, there is always sunlight in front of you, guiding you.
ICEHOTEL's art suite "Show Me What You Got", designed by Tjåsa Gusfors and David Andrén, photographed by Asaf Kliger. This is a very fascinating and stunning suite. The two designers designed the ice church together last year, and this year they created this room with the theme of peacock screen. This theme is intended to enlighten the guest, to stand up and show yourself for your dignity; when you show yourself, you are the most beautiful. The peacock represents pride, beauty and magic, the image of the peacock occupies the entire wall, and the most beautiful thing about this room is that at the tail end of the ice and snow peacock plume is a lamp, shining like an eye. This beautiful creature of the peacock is not uncommon in various literary and artistic works, and this peacock here seems to have a kind of supernatural power, giving people a sense of invincibility of the king, self-confidence, dignity, and is the most beautiful possession of a person.
ICEHOTEL's luxurious suite ,"Rhythm of the Arctic," is designed by Shingo Saito and Natsuki Saito, photographed by Asaf Kliger. Taiga, Northern Lights, ice, snow. Can these elements be seen as the rhythm of the Arctic? The rhythm of the Arctic originates from nature and returns to nature. The two artists once created a precious artistic wealth for the Ice Hotel, and this time, it is a luxurious suite that is nearly twice the size of a regular art suite. As the sun rises slowly from the Tona River, as the Northern Lights leap through the sky, these beautiful natural experiences give designers wonderful inspiration. The Northern Lights hanging in the sky, the mysterious and vast forest, against the background of ice and snow, compose a moving Arctic song.
ICEHOTEL's luxurious suite "New Lux", designed by Marjolein Vonk and Maurizio Perron, photographed by Asaf Kliger. What is luxury? Grandees? Gold? With unlimited resources? So what is the new luxury? Put down your phone, leave the web, eat your own food, or build a log cabin and spend a few hours a day there on your own — that's the new luxury, a state of living back to basics and nature. That's the theme of this suite. Spend the most time with close people, away from the hustle and bustle of the world, enjoy a person's undisturbed time, in this era of material luxury, looking for your own side of the spiritual luxury world.
ICEHOTEL's Art Suite Don't Say Don't Cry, designed by Petri Tuominen and Urs Koller, photographed by Asaf Kliger. The black and white vultures and the Indian elephant are the two protagonists of this room, one representing a story of happiness and the other a story of sadness, and what they have in common with each other is tears. Through these two symbols, the designer intends to express the creatures of the world and the tears of the world, symbolizing a hydrological cycle. If we live long enough, then the water of the whole world will circulate through a drop or tear of happiness or sadness. All things return to the beginning, and one thought returns to the truth.
If the flowers are similar from year to year, and the people are different from year to year, then the ice hotel is different from year to year, and the flowers are not similar to each other. Each room made of ice and snow embodies the artist's unique aesthetic concept and artistic expression, and every year that passes, the room disappears permanently, becoming history, becoming a memory, leaving behind perhaps fragmented impressions, words or pictures. We don't have time to experience every season, just as we don't have time to appreciate what has happened and lost at all points in time. And we may not need to experience every node of the past, because we know that the present is still there, the future is still there, and we are moving through the present step by step to the nearer and closer future. Every node in the future is more worth looking forward to. This is the deepest revelation that the Ice Hotel can give, no matter how close or far you have been to her.
Some of the information comes from the official website of the Ice Hotel, the official website of the Ice Hotel Address: http://www.icehotel.se/ the official website provides online booking services
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