Archinect - News 2024-11-17T15:52:02-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/89832858/an-enormous-ice-castle-worthy-of-china-s-biggest-bank An enormous ice castle worthy of China’s biggest bank Archinect 2013-12-27T13:55:00-05:00 >2013-12-30T18:19:07-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4c/4c2fa8d392805a91c6a959b6ebd394cc?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>This ice castle&mdash;or, ice bank fortress&mdash;is perhaps the most spectacular entrant in the 30th annual International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin. A sign hanging outside the sculpture suggests it&rsquo;s intended to look like a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the nation&rsquo;s biggest bank.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>