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Iceland’s Langjökull IceCave will debut in May A new visitor attraction will launch later this


year in Iceland in the shape of IceCave – a network of man-made tunnels and spaces running inside the Langjökull Glacier. IceCave will be one of the largest man- made structures in the world, stretching 300m (984ft) back into the glacier and a further 30m (98ft) below the surface.


In the works since 2010, the US$2.5m (E2.1m, £1.6m) development will allow visitors to see ‘blue ice’. Each year the ice cap is covered in roughly six metres of fresh snow, which is is melted by the sun on one side and compacted by the weight on snow on the other. That compacted snow turns to ice, which over time becomes denser until it becomes the blue ice formed only under these specific conditions. Backed by leading pension fund investors and the Icelandair Group, the project has engaged a number of experts, including one of Iceland’s leading geophysicists and glacial experts, Ari Trausti, plus a team of specialist construction workers. Iceland-based engi- neering and consulting company EFLA is digging the tunnels in the glacier.


IceCave will be one of the the largest man-made structures in the world when it opens in May


Visitors will embark on a weather-depend- ent adventure between March and October on an ex-NATO, eight wheel drive missile


launcher, converted to transport up to 40 people at a time to the glacier. Tours will last between 2.5 and 14 hours. @icecaveiceland


Designers reveal ‘second gate’ for Amsterdam


Plans to create a E400 million (£314m, $489m) metropolitan theme park on the outskirts of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, are being devel- oped by a caucus of leading design firms. The project – Park 21 – would be a 1,000-hectare (3,000 acre) cultural, recreational urban parkland, with landscaped and leisure elements. Facilities such as shops, restaurants, hotels and attractions are central to the pro- posal, which would offer a ‘cluster concept’ where visitors pick and choose activities. Plans have been commissioned by the Municipality of Haarlemmermeer – 20 min- utes from downtown Amsterdam and five


Park 21 will ease pressure on central Amsterdam with strong transport links and a family focus


Rhys: Park 21 will be a deconstructed theme park where you choose what you want to do


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minutes from Schiphol Airport. “Downtown Amsterdam is overcrowded,” Hans van Driem, development consultant for the project, told CLADmag: “The city has seen a 14 per cent increase in international visitors since 2013, from 6.35 million to 7.23 million in 2014. The Park 21 scheme will give it more capacity.” The concept is being developed by Toronto- based planning and design firm Forrec, along with consultancy practice Leisure Development Partners (LDP) and M2 Leisure. Steve Rhys, vice president of Forrec said: “There’s a phenomenon we’re seeing


in entertainment where the conventional single-gated attractions – where you park your car, walk through the retail village and spend your whole day inside a gated facility – are making way for many-gated cluster-concepts. “Park 21 will be a cultural, recreational, family destination – a deconstructed theme park – where you enter through public, no-charge gates and choose what you want to do and how long you want to stay,” added Rhys. The project is currently at the funding and feasibility stage, with opening planned for April 2020. @forrecdesigns


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