A Room That Will Not Exist by June

Bar counter carved from ice and lit from within, ICEHOTEL Jukkasjarvi

← Swedish Lapland · Sensory The first strange thing about the ICEHOTEL is not the cold. It’s the knowledge, sitting quietly under everything else you feel that night, that the room you’re standing in was carved a few weeks ago from a river, and will be a river again by early summer. Some links below … Read more

Kiruna Is Rebuilding Itself While You Watch

Steep wooden gables of Kiruna Church under snow, gilded statues along the roofline in low sun

← Swedish Lapland · Culture & Design Most cities that change do it slowly enough that nobody notices until it’s finished. Kiruna is doing the opposite. It is moving itself, building by building, three kilometres east, in full view, over a span of decades — and you can visit it mid-sentence, so to speak, while … Read more