A Photo Visit to Sweden’s Icehotel

• Alan Taylor
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Every year since 1989, a hotel built out of snow and ice is constructed anew, and welcomes guests in the Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi. This year’s edition, Icehotel 34, recently opened, displaying new themes for its rooms and many new ice sculptures. Icehotel is both an art exhibition and a functional hotel—and this year features more than a dozen art suites, a main hall, and a ceremony hall. Gathered below are photographs of this year’s version, and of several incarnations from previous years.

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• The Main Hall of the Icehotel, designed by the artists Jens Thoms Ivarsson, Mats Nilsson and words by Petri Tuominen, is pictured in the village of Jukkasjarvi, near Kiruna, Sweden, on February 9, 2020. #

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• A phenomenon called polar stratospheric clouds is visible in the sky over Icehotel 34 on December 17, 2023, in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden. #

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• A view of the Ceremony Hall named "Slava" by artists Tomasz Czajkowski and Grzegorz Olczak at Icehotel 34, seen on December 14, 2023. #

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• Artist Tjåsa Gusfors works on her creation "Katt & Råtta" at Icehotel 34 on December 14, 2023. #

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• A plow clears snow at the construction site of a new Icehotel on November 21, 2022. #

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• A view of the Icehotel room called "Katt & Råtta," created by artists Tjåsa Gusfors and Hanneke Supply, on December 15, 2023. #........
  

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