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  Entice-ing: Ice palaces create multicoloured skyline at chilly Chinese festival celebrating subzero temperatures These frozen wonders are part of a display at the 29th annual Harbin International Ice and Snow festival held in Harbin, near the Russian border in northeast China. The palaces and sculptures are made from hollow blocks of ice and lit up using LED lights creating a multicoloured glow-in-the-dark skyline on the shores of the nearby Songhua river. The festival features work by some of the country's best ice sculptors and attracts thousands of visitors from around the world who marvel at the wonderous creations, enjoy the fireworks over the City of Ice or appeal to their inner child as they take a ride on the ice-slides. Subzero ceremony: Spectators cheer as fireworks are set off to celebrate the opening of the 29th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival earlier today A Song-ha of Ice and Fire: The ice constructio...

    Adnan Alagic, Amila Hrustic and Bojan Kanlic are the names of three young designers who have designed the new pedestrian bridge over the Miljacka River in Sarajevo. The basic idea of the bridge is the union of the secular and spiritual and to establish a balance between left and right side. The Festina Lente (lat. Hurry slowly) is the result of a 2007 competition. Crossing the bridge is a unique experience because of it's specific layout and views that we encounter when going through the gate (closed part of thebridge) preparing us to enter into another dimension, and awakes spirituality. Technological solutions and modern design of the bridge become the brand of Sarajevo. The basis of the project, the idea of creating a balance between the left and right banks of the river, whilst establishing temporal and spiritual union between the two. The "knot" is abridge port, symbolic, which predisposes to enter another spiritual dimension. Bri...