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The TRON Suite





At first I wasn’t a TRON fan, but it has definitely grown on me. After seeing this TRON Suite at the world-famous Swedish Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi, I might have to watch the movie. The designers of this suite, Ben Rousseau and Ian Douglas-Jones, utilizing ultra-low energy lights that appear to be frozen in or behind the ice—brilliant!

The whole thing reminds me of a nightclub. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised to see a night club made of ice pop up next door to the hotel sometime soon. What are your thoughts on this—would you stay here?

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William says:

December 9, 2010 at 9:07 pm

Ice night club? What, you think we got constant permafrost and polar bears wandering the streets of Stockholm?

I wish.

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eydryan says:

December 9, 2010 at 11:55 pm

The ephemeral quality of the place is what bugs me, at least in theory. Do the rooms eventually melt? How do they feel to the touch?

But I must applaud the design attempts, it’s a great idea and I wish more hotels would do this. However who would want to get just a room and get stuck with something like the rickroll room :))

when are we going to see another process video from Alex or Scott?

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Shelby says:

December 10, 2010 at 12:11 am

I also question the same thing—but I believe they must cool the rooms.

Also you’re going to see a large process post from a project of mine on Monday. Definitely something to look forward to.

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eydryan says:

December 10, 2010 at 1:33 am

awesome :D really looking forward to it :D

i just love those process posts because all of you guys have such attention to detail and such passion for your work :)

one other irk about this though: why don’t you use disqus on your site? or some sort of reply notification mechanism? i have so much stuff going on i usually forget to check on posts like these where i comment. skinning disqus isn’t that easy but implementing it is.

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Adam Regele says:

December 11, 2010 at 10:54 pm

Don’t think i could fall asleep unless the lights dimmed to pretty much black.
But im a huge TRON fan! I’d rather have that look in a night club, that would seems to fit the essence better. The fact is, that type of ambience is stimulating and when im sleeping, i want the exact opposite.

Plus it would probably make my already pale body look like a jelly fish. Ladies wouldnt be a fan.

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Eirik Søderblom says:

December 15, 2010 at 2:44 am

This is really nice!
They actually build a new icehotel every year. It melts dow in spring an then they build it again with new designs every autumn…