Lighting up cultural venues

Designed as a tourist information point and a cultural venue for China’s winter resorts in Xinjiang, the Ice Cubes Cultural Tourist Centre has been designed to resemble a pile of eleven stacked ice cubes. The double-leaf all-glass facade features a digital frost-patterned print, and lets in plenty of natural light during the day while presenting an alluring, ice-like exterior. For night-time illumination, lighting consultants PROL have installed luminaries between the two glass layers, which create a subtle, lantern-like effect with additional emphasis on the illuminated vertices. The cubes also feature more colourful blue and purple luminaires that can be used to create a more surreal, otherworldly experience.