I happened upon a television documentary about a hotel in Iceland that gets rebuilt every year... because the hotel is made from ice and melts with the arrival of spring.
Talk about an exercise in futility! Granted, a hotel of ice is a novel concept, but when the structure first melted with the arrival of above freezing temperatures it seems to me the designer and builder would have put their heads together and said Oops, bad idea, should have seen that coming.
Not so. The folks involved immediately started harvesting massive blocks of ice from flows that spring hadn't yet managed to thaw and putting the blocks in temperature controlled storage for the next year.
Now maybe I'm missing something, but if you're going to build a climate controlled building big enough to hold the ice needed to build an entire hotel year after year why not just construct the hotel the traditional way, build it only once, and install an air handling system that will take the indoor temperature down to twenty degrees?
Better yet, why not build a hotel that's warm? Personally I'm not keen on the idea of trying to fall asleep on an oversize squeeze pop no matter how many seal skins are thrown on top.
And as for honeymooning in an ice hotel (which some folks do) - well there's that whole issue of certain things failing to achieve a workable size when the body as a whole is turning blue from cold.
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