Sweden has just opened up the new 25th hotel which is located in Jukkasjärvi, Swedish Lapland, and really changes up the meaning of being a modern hotel. The hotel is an ice hotel that is extremely nice and has taken the past couple weeks to have artists come in from all around the world and build pieces from ice. The unique idea for the pop up hotel has been a complicated process but seems worth it and was able to be completed and have its doors open for service starting on December 20th.
The biggest draw for the hotel is that they are also using the ice to create an entire frozen bar. The entire project, including the bar has required 1,600 tons of ice in total and is aimed to look like there is snow splashing onto the walls. The cool ice bar was designed by an entire team that includes the Italian sculptor Maurizio Perron, Bulgarian architect Viktor Tsarsk and Dutch designer Wouter Biegelaar. The bar is the centerpiece of the hotel and will surely be the main attraction for guests. The rooms and other art pieces were built and created by 42 different artists and the hotel itself takes up 5,500 square meters.
The first ice hotel was originally created in 1990 and was the first of its kind. This year marks 25 consecutive seasons that they have built and opened the hotel. Each year they use ice and snow from the Torne River which create beautiful ice architecture that displays different styles and themes across the 12 frames for everyone to come check out. This year the hotel is being titled “Boom” because the entire structure looks as though it emerged out of an explosion of some kind. The ice hotel will stay open until sometime in April when it begins to melt back into the Earth, making very little to clean up.
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