China's City of Magical Ice Castles

Article by: Laura Mason|@masonlazarus

Tue January 07, 2014 | 00:00 AM


Cold weather got you stuck inside? See the frozen kingdom that 10,000 workers just built in -28 degrees Celsius weather. 

 

Using 550 pound blocks of ice from a frozen river, workers manually constructed illuminated castles, mystical snow creatures, and other fantastical, icy edifices for the 30th Harbin Ice & Snow Sculpture Festival. From January 5th through February 28th, the festival will be showcasing over 1,000,000 square feet of artfully arranged ice and snow.