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Paris-based architect Zone Of Utopia has created a tourist attraction in northern China out of a series of stacked “ice cubes”.
The “Cultural Tourism City Demonstration Centre” hopes to lure skiers to Xinxiang, a city in China’s northern Henan province, with a ski slope, restaurants, cafes and a series of open terraces giving views over an artificial lake.
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The development’s nine cubes are made from frosted glass and rise to a height of 49m.
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Zone of Utopia describes its creation as a “new symbol for the city”, and says it will “remind people of the joy of ice and snow, sunlight and winter sports”.
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Fellow Parisian firm Mathieu Forest Architecte also worked on the project.