A new renewable-energy powered indoor snow centre planned to be built near Sydney has unveiled its final architectural designs. The exterior architectural designs for Winter Sports World, which is proposed to be built at Penrith in New South Wales, were created by boutique Sydney architecture firm Collins & Turner, who describe it as, “a snow cloud above a hill”. In

A huge indoor snow centre in Moscow is to be demolished after major structural flaws were found. The SNEZH.COM slope at Krasnogorsk, just northeast of the city’s limits, was built at a rumoured cost of about $100 million and opened in March 2008. It was closed in late 2021 after failing a long list of health and safety checks by

China’s Sunac Group, which operate the three largest indoor snow centres in the world, has soft  opened a seventh centre this month and already received more than 26,000 guests. It will have its grand opening on 28th October. The new WS Bonski indoor centre Wuhan is not one of the biggest with just over 15,000 square metres of indoor snow

The energy crisis in Europe resulting from the Ukraine War has led to concerns about high-energy using non-essential businesses like indoor snow centres being able to operate this winter. Germany is one of the three largest operators on indoor snow centres along with The Netherlands and the UK and the country’s centres have begun clarifying whether they will be able

The 2021-2022 edition of the China Ski Industry White Book compiled each year by Wu Bin (Benny Wu) reports that China now has 42 indoor snow centres – about a third of the world total. “The indoor ski resort business has exploded in China, which is the most noteworthy phenomenon in the domestic ski industry in recent years,” The only

The Sunac Group, which runs the world’s three largest indoor snow centres, all built within the past five years in China, has unveiled another flagship indoor snow centre project for Wuhan. The new Changjiang Snow World, due to open in 2024, will be another of the world’s biggest, standing 100 metres high at its highest point and with a 500

China has unveiled a huge indoor half pipe located in the Chongli district which staged most of the skiing events during the Winter Olympics earlier this year. Providing year-round training facilities for top freestyle athletes, the indoor halfpipe has been equipped with a TechnoAlpin SnowFactory that produces 1,000 m3 of snow per day, as well as TechnoAlpin TF10 propeller machines

A small indoor snow centre has opened in Indonesia, with snow provided by one of the world’s leading manufacturers of conventional snowmaking systems, TechnoAlpin. The Italian company also makes ‘all-weather’ machines for use at outdoor areas where natural snow cover can’t be guaranteed and three of these SnowFactory machines are in use at the new Trans Snow World Surabaya Trans

Saudi Arabia has submitted a bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games at a ski area it plans to build in the Sarawat mountains, about 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of the Red Sea coast. However work on the ski area has not yet commenced. Trojena Sports City has been promoted as an “all year ski village” but it

The UK’s six indoor snow centres are proving a haven as temperatures top 40 Celcius in England as the climate crisis continues to take hold.   ITV made a film of skiers at the Chill Factore centre near Manchester switching from T shorts and shorts to thermals as they experienced a 40 degree drop in temperature from the high 30s