Ice Castles

[thewayne]

I've heard of ice hotels and such. Right now in Las Vegas (not the one in New Mexico) they've built an ice bar in a huge freezer warehouse where you can buy tickets for 30 minutes that include a free drink (in a bowl of ice, natch') and rental of furs to keep you warm. This article talks about a company who uses CNC milling equipment to pre-fab such things and ships them around the world.

Some interesting bits, such as an ice hotel in Alaska that had to close and reopen as a museum when a building inspector decided it needed sprinklers. Yeah, it's a tragedy how many people die every year in ice hotel fires.

Yes, I am a geek. I think this is pretty cool, no pun intended. Maybe.

http://www.wired.com/culture/design/magazine/17-01/ff_ice_king?currentPage=all

Comments

[silveradept]

That's totally hot, this ice club idea. Although, for me, it would be like "Hey, it's kind of like home, only with more structure to the ice structures." I don't know if that would be worth the $30.