Comments on: Ice Architecture http://www.lewism.org/2006/01/03/ice-architecture/ A Tectonic Notebook Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:54:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: georgia http://www.lewism.org/2006/01/03/ice-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-19982 georgia Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:12:52 +0000 http://www.freshlypressed.net/lewis/?p=60#comment-19982 I was watching the other day an advertisement about your ice hotel and i was curious about some things. First of all, i saw blankets that came from a real animal such as bear and i must say that it was the only part i didn't like at all. The hotel is fabulous and very different from all the others but i must say that if i had to choose between the ice hotel and a common one, i would choose the common one just for that reason. I think that it's very important for you to consider matters like these. I also realise that you do that in order to provide us the feeling of living in cold circumstances but maybe all these are too much. Our century is very critical for us as it will be for our children too. We don't have to kill animals just because we want to built a different kind of hotel! Try to find other ways, maybe synthetic ones, to achieve the result you want. Consider how many animals you kill every year for all those rooms! I know that my opinion is not going to effect you but i wanted to try. I would be very gratefull if you could try to find other solutions about this because than i could visit your hotel. There are people who don't want to give their money for causes like these because the next year, more animals will die and the worst is that we will pay for that.... georgia armaou from tinos-greece I was watching the other day an advertisement about your ice hotel and i was curious about some things. First of all, i saw blankets that came from a real animal such as bear and i must say that it was the only part i didn’t like at all.
The hotel is fabulous and very different from all the others but i must say that if i had to choose between the ice hotel and a common one, i would choose the common one just for that reason.
I think that it’s very important for you to consider matters like these. I also realise that you do that in order to provide us the feeling of living in cold circumstances but maybe all these are too much.
Our century is very critical for us as it will be for our children too.
We don’t have to kill animals just because we want to built a different kind of hotel! Try to find other ways, maybe synthetic ones, to achieve the result you want. Consider how many animals you kill every year for all those rooms!
I know that my opinion is not going to effect you but i wanted to try.
I would be very gratefull if you could try to find other solutions about this because than i could visit your hotel.
There are people who don’t want to give their money for causes like these because the next year, more animals will die and the worst is that we will pay for that….

georgia armaou from tinos-greece

]]> By: lewism http://www.lewism.org/2006/01/03/ice-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-11 lewism Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:19:26 +0000 http://www.freshlypressed.net/lewis/?p=60#comment-11 also found <a href="http://www.visitfinland.com/web/FTG/Publish.nsf/0/9C8BC55678884B10C2257067003BD8D1?opendocument" rel="nofollow">http://www.visitfinland.com/web/FTG/Publish.nsf/0/9C8BC55678884B10C2257067003BD8D1?opendocument</a> covers the finnish 'snow hotels' also found http://www.visitfinland.com/web/FTG/Publish.nsf/0/9C8BC55678884B10C2257067003BD8D1?opendocument
covers the finnish ’snow hotels’

]]> By: Paul http://www.lewism.org/2006/01/03/ice-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Paul Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:59:35 +0000 http://www.freshlypressed.net/lewis/?p=60#comment-10 Ooh, that's really pretty. I've seen a documentary on it being built, and I bet a magical christmas and new year could be had there. Ooh, that’s really pretty. I’ve seen a documentary on it being built, and I bet a magical christmas and new year could be had there.

]]> By: Jukka http://www.lewism.org/2006/01/03/ice-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Jukka Tue, 03 Jan 2006 20:04:59 +0000 http://www.freshlypressed.net/lewis/?p=60#comment-9 The Kiruna Icehotel was a big dissappointment for me when I visited it early 2004. The whole setting seemed tacky and had nothing to give architecture wise. It might be because of the Snow Show in Rovaniemi and Kemi ( <a href="http://www.thesnowshow.net/home/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.thesnowshow.net/home/index.php</a> note that the thesnowshow.net main page does not have a link to the old site that the url is pointing to ) during that same winter or just because the snowcastle in Kemi ( <a href="http://www.snowcastle.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.snowcastle.net/</a> ) is a lot more impressive construction wise. Even the ice sauna build at my school (<a href="http://www.k2s.fi/projektit/jaasauna/project_info.html)" rel="nofollow">http://www.k2s.fi/projektit/jaasauna/project_info.html)</a> was a lot more impressive than the hotel :) The Kiruna Icehotel was a big dissappointment for me when I visited it early 2004. The whole setting seemed tacky and had nothing to give architecture wise.

It might be because of the Snow Show in Rovaniemi and Kemi ( http://www.thesnowshow.net/home/index.php note that the thesnowshow.net main page does not have a link to the old site that the url is pointing to ) during that same winter or just because the snowcastle in Kemi ( http://www.snowcastle.net/ ) is a lot more impressive construction wise.

Even the ice sauna build at my school (http://www.k2s.fi/projektit/jaasauna/project_info.html) was a lot more impressive than the hotel :)

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