Norway’s huge SNØ indoor snow centre which opened shortly before the pandemic has been highlighting the fact that despite the image of indoor snow centres needing to use a lot of energy to keep the snow in shape year-round, it is actually a so-called ‘plus building’ – generating more green energy than the power it needs to operate. The surplus

The Big Snow indoor snow centre is making headline in the US as it continues to offer a cool, snowy interior whilst the outside world bakes in extreme heat. The state of New Jersey, where the snow centre is located, is in the middle of what’s officially termed a ‘heatwave’ with temperatures over 90F (32C) for more than three consecutive

A Dutch design company has released its concept for redeveloping a former aircraft carrier into a super yacht. The company’s plans for the 60 year old former French Naval ship would see the boat’s large surface area switch to ‘interchangeable decks’ which could include a ski slope, as well as a golf course. Design company Mitsi Studio are behind the

A planned new indoor snow centre, Winter Sports World, proposed for Penrith near Sydney in Australia will be entirely powered by a 1.2 megawatt power supply of photovoltaic solar cells on the roof, the team behind the project say. That’s the equivalent of powering 220 homes with photovoltaic panels, feeding into an on-site battery storage facility.The $300 million development will

The Italian-headquartered snowmaking company Demaclenko has created a new all-weather snowmaking machine which the company says offers, “…an unprecedented solution for efficient and powerful snowmaking when it’s not freezing.” Working with the Austrian-based company 3CON, a specialist in interior production systems, Demaclenko has christened their technology ‘Snow4Ever 200’ and states, “What’s revolutionary about Demaclenko’s technology is that real technical snow,

A website that says it is, “your trusted shortcut to booking travel that’s good, and makes you feel good,” has listed the Chill Factore indoor snow centre as one of the best options for people planning a first date in the city of Manchester. “Bored of going out for a meal with a stranger or fancy spicing up your dates

Design Partners at 10 Design, Chin Yong Ng and Lukasz Wawrzenczyk, have won an invited competition to design the latest new giant indoor snow centre from the Sunac group – Shenzhen Snow World. The new centre will be part of a wider development of the Sunac-Huafa Snow Tourism World in the Bao’an district of Shenzhen. Sunac is already one of

Saudi Arabia has announced that it is hoping to find ski and snowboard competitors to represent the kingdom at next winter’s 2022 Olympics in Beijing. The country is also set to become home to the fourth largest indoor snow centre in the world, and the largest outside China, next year. The Saudi Winter Sports Federation has been placing adverts seeking

What is being billed as “one of the world’s largest snow parks” is due to open “later this year” as part of a giant new mall complex in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the people behind it say. Construction of the massive USD $1.2billon Reem Mall retail project and surrounding transport link upgrades are reported to be currently

The Mall of Oman, from the Majid Al Futtaim group which gave us Ski Dubai and the more recent Ski Egypt, is on course to open as scheduled this September, complete with a 14,000 square metre indoor snow park, the company says. There’s not a great deal of detail on the indoor snowpark yet but its reported size places it