Poster: A snowHead
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An indoor slope featuring a 160m drop is planned for Sweden, which will be the world’s only indoor ski-slope that meets the requirements to host a World Cup event. The indoor skiing centre has been designed by CF Møller Architects, and will contain a 700m-long downhill slope, as well as a 3.5km cross-country skiing tunnel, a snow park dedicated to snowboarding, and an arena for biathlon, ice hockey and figure skating.
...The 135m-high building is to be built in a forest just outside Stockholm, and work is expected to start onsite by 2014.
Source: http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/cf-m%C3%B8ller-unveils-indoor-skiing-centre-for-sweden/5025174.article
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wowser
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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thats the way to do it!
incredible.
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el Hen wrote: |
a snow park dedicated to snowboarding |
Dont think the freestyle skiers will like that!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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This is just still a dream, nothing there is no money for it, sorry just a planning on a paper,, but why not have big dreams
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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Jesus, Mary and the Carpenter! Gotta love the Scandis!!!
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Is it called Skipark 360 because thats how many million quid it's going to cost to build?
Brilliant structure and more power to the project, just not going to hold my breath for it in the current climate.
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Why not build it on a 700 metre long hill with a 160 metre drop, would make it much cheaper and not nearly as ugly. That's if it ever get's built at all.
How much leccy will that fridge use in Green Sweden.
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Kel wrote: |
Why not build it on a 700 metre long hill with a 160 metre drop, would make it much cheaper and not nearly as ugly. |
For that you need a 160m high hill and I'm not sure that Stockholm, on the coast and surrounded by lakes, has one. A quick web search shows Stockholm does already have a couple of ski hills with about 80m vertical, one being Hammarbybacken which is 82m high, and has a 700m slope down it, so I assume that is about the maximum vertical near Stockholm. The closest real ski-hill appears to be about 2 hours away.
I suppose it depends on how keen Swedes are on skiing through the summer, but the economics do seem somewhat difficult when you can ski outdoors during the winter.
I agree though that some of these fridges are really ugly - I think Chill Factore and MK are both eyesores, as they are built straight up from flat plains (like the picture of this one). Hemel is much better as it is built on a natural hill, and Landgraaf isn't too bad as it livens up an otherwise ugly slag-heap.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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crazy swedes
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