Day fifteen

Via live web cam you can follow us working on our Suite Ice fishing in ICEHOTEL. With exception for shorter breaks and lunch, we will be broadcasting the building process between 10 am and 8 pm CET.

You can see the camera at this address:

http://www.icehotel.com/uk/ICEHOTEL/Webcam/Live-artwork/


When we arrived this morning a beautiful overhead light shined through our Icehotel Suite. Outside it was -28 degrees!

More sea leaves are about to be completed, at the moment 80% of the room is ready.




Today at Icehotel we also celebrated Saint Lucia. The candles symbolize the light with which Lucia overcomes the darkness.

Day fourteen

Via live web cam you can follow us working on our Suite Ice fishing in ICEHOTEL. With exception for shorter breaks and lunch, we will be broadcasting the building process between 10 am and 8 pm CET.

You can see the camera at this address:

http://www.icehotel.com/uk/ICEHOTEL/Webcam/Live-artwork/

 


A pink morning this fourteenth day of work at Icehotel.

We have been working to get the sea leaves to "grow up trough the ceiling" by immersing the very top of them in the roof of Icehotel. A tractor lifted the heavy load.

 

We mixed a huge amount of Snice (mixture of water and snow) with a heat gun to fix the holes around the sea leaves inside our Icehotel Suite.

In order not to disturb guests we couldn´t work too late this evening, some of the Suites in our corridor are already rented. 

See you tomorrow! 4 days left until the deadline.

Day thirteen

Via live web cam you can follow us working on our Suite Ice fishing in ICEHOTEL. With exception for shorter breaks and lunch, we will be broadcasting the building process between 10 am and 8 pm CET.

You can see the camera at this address:

http://www.icehotel.com/uk/ICEHOTEL/Webcam/Live-artwork/

A cold but very beautiful day today.

Ice carving on the schedule. These small blocks will be placed on top of the sea leaves to extend them all the way up trough the roof.

Three out of seven sea leaves setted on place!

With aching muscles, tired but happy, we leave Icehotel for today.

 

Day twelve

Via live web cam you can follow us working on our Suite Ice fishing in ICEHOTEL. With exception for shorter breaks and lunch, we will be broadcasting the building process between 10 am and 8 pm CET.

You can see the camera at this address:

http://www.icehotel.com/uk/ICEHOTEL/Webcam/Live-artwork/



Jukkasjärvi Icehotel December 10, -21 degrees

The sea leaves are finally taking shape!

After we marked the position of the pillars on the floor we have located the exact spot where they are supposed to meet the roof.

We are building the pillars using big ice blocks measuring 50x30 and the surfaces need to be leveled before we "glue" them together. It´s interesting how water can be used to connect ice blocks in such a resistent way.

 

Tomorrow we are going to set the last blocks which are supposed to extend up trough the roof.

Today is the first day for tourists to enjoy Icehotel and some final retouches are required before the opening ceremony of the Icebar.

 

Day eleven

Via live web cam you can follow us working on our Suite Ice fishing in ICEHOTEL. With exception for shorter breaks and lunch, we will be broadcasting the building process between 10 am and 8 pm CET.

You can see the camera at this address:

http://www.icehotel.com/uk/ICEHOTEL/Webcam/Live-artwork/

The Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi is situated above the Arctic Circle. Here, as in all polar regions, the sun is not visible above the horizon for a period that goes from the beginning of December until mid January. 

This season in Lapland is simply breathtaking: fairy-tale snow landscape and a particular daylight resembling a long sunset.  

Today we used a pressure watergun to glaze the rough pattern we digged yesterday all along the roof in our Icehotel Suite. 

The water, freezing immediately, left the surface very shiny and wet-like. The underwater ice effect we are trying to create will look marvelous with the illumination we planned with the Lighting Team.

We also completed the smoothing on the walls and set the ice pillars in position. Tomorrow will be a very hard day: heavy blocks to lift, holes to dig and more sculpturing...

The Icehotel continues to grow, day by day, all winter.

Day ten

Via live web cam you can follow us working on our Suite Ice fishing in ICEHOTEL. With exception for shorter breaks and lunch, we will be broadcasting the building process between 10 am and 8 pm CET.

You can see the camera at this address:
http://www.icehotel.com/uk/ICEHOTEL/Webcam/Live-artwork/

Today in our Icehotel Suite we kept on polishing the walls and rounding the edges, it´s a hard job but is going to look awesome after the lighting is ready.
In the scene represented our Suite, the ceiling is a glimmering ice surface at the top of a frozen lake, to create this effect we digged out a rough pattern all along the arch.

- 8 days to go!

Day nine

Via live web cam you can follow us working on our Suite Ice fishing in ICEHOTEL. With exception for shorter breaks and lunch, we will be broadcasting the building process between 10 am and 8 pm CET.

You can see the camera at this address:
http://www.icehotel.com/uk/ICEHOTEL/Webcam/Live-artwork/

Today we worked sculpturing more on the fish, trying to get the right movement and volume. The yellow dots is the marks left by the rebars we are placing inside the body of the fish, this should make the whole structure more resilient.

Tomorrow we are going to make "snice", the perfect combination of snow and water, to cover the holes and polish the surface.

   

Hard day today, time to get some rest.