Siberia Space: Russian Town Tints Its White Winter World
The tiny Siberian town of Ust-Yansk counters the pervasive whiteness of long & snowy winters by cladding its buildings in a rainbow of contrasting colors. To say Ust-Yansk is isolated ...
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Winter Carousels: Circular Spinning Ice Islands Carved with Chainsaws
Ice fishing huts and art shanties allow people to enjoy peaceful winters and creative expression on frozen lakes, but for those with something more dynamic in mind: rotating DIY islands of ice ...
Slalom House: The World’s First Residential Rooftop Ski Slope
Designed for Astana, the cold capital city of Kazakhstan, this 'white roof' 1,000-foot ski run wraps around an apartment tower, bringing winter sports right to residents' ...
Art of Photography: NYC Blizzard Photo Looks Like a Painting
As roads closed and kids turned staircases into sledding hills and snowboarding slopes across East Coast cities during Jonas, one photographer stopped to shoot a few pictures that turned out ...
Trail Blazing: ‘Freezeway’ Path for Ice Skaters Opens in Canada
The new Freezeway pilot project now live in Edmonton aims to draw residents out of hibernation, encouraging them to skate along an iced trail system slated to double as a seven-mile commuting ...
Snow Calligraphy: Reverse Graffiti Artist Tags Parked Vehicles
For years, this graffiti calligrapher has made his mark around New York City, but some of his best work is reserved for special (and somewhat unpredictable) occasions, relying on seasonal ...
Commuter Freezeways: Bike Paths as Winter Ice Skating Corridors
Proposed by a landscape architect from Edmonton, Alberta, this 7-mile urban project may not be as far fetched as it first sounds - in many regards it is simply a linear extension of an ice ...
Cool as Ice: 10 Years of Artist-Made Shanties on Frozen Lakes
Over the past decade, over 1,000 artists and 60,000 visitors have taken part in this incredible seasonal arts event, coming together to create an annual temporary community-on-ice in one of the ...
Civic Secrets: Urban Patterns Revealed in Street-Side Snow
Ingenious and contagious, the idea is spreading: after it snows, document where cars do not go, then use that to understand where sidewalks and other public areas can be expanded without any ...
Cellograff: Wall-Free Graffiti Sprayed on Clear Cellophane
Tagging is typically considered an urban art. At the very least you need walls to write on, right? Not necessarily - some clever artists have started to stretch cellophane between any available ...
