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Ice Culture specializes in building enormous and elaborate ice installations in some of the hottest places on the planet. With restaurants and lounges made of ice in Thailand, Miami, Dubai, and now Las Vegas, there’s nowhere these builders won’t go. Click through the gallery to see their more dazzling installations, and be sure to read about Vegas’ new chill Minus 5 Lounge in this month’s issue of Wired. Left: An ice bridge rises up in the middle of the rink at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
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It took a team of 14 people 10 days and 2,000 blocks of ice to create the Pontiac Ice Maze. The final product now has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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Nothing screams extravagant wedding like three waterfall ice bars in front of a larger waterfall backdrop.
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A beaded ice curtain greets visitors at a Distillery District opening in Toronto.
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This vodka ice bar at a Pebble Beach, California, event features four ice luges. Pour a shot of liquor into the top of the ice luge and by the time it pours out the bottom, it’s ice cold.
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It took seven weeks for the components of this ice bar to travel from Canada to the island of Koh Samui in Thailand. To arrive intact, the shipment had to be transferred into smaller containers in Bangkok.
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The Chillout ice restaurant in Dubai has been bringing igloo life to the desert for almost two years. It’s set for a refurbishing in 2009.
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The C-Lounge in Toronto was the first ice lounge in North America and set the trend for more installations in Canada as well as in the US.
