12/24/2002: Ice building

[Mojo The Monkey]

Originally posted by andcal
When I saw that building I almost knew that it was somewhere besides the US (architechture aside). <br> No one would want to take the liability of allowing people to construct a multi-story building (even a facade) out of something as heavy yet potentially unstable as ice. <br>Someone would get hurt, and someone would get sued. If not now, when the building eventually melted or fell.<br><br>
Just my $.02 worth.<br>
I'm not saying that it *should* be that way, I am just saying that I would have been surprised if I had found out that it was in the US.

Pfff.

We build an even bigger one up here in St. Paul every decade or so.

Here's a picture of the last big one, from 1992. There's talk of building another big one next year.



and here's a couple of shots of the construction...





And here's a nice picture of it complete, at night.