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Created by Michael Van Valkenburgh...
...honesty, levity aside, the Quad Ice Project is well worth a visit. While the steel poles and wire mesh may not be to everyone's liking, the ice itself is of truly breathtaking beauty. Michael Van Valkenburgh has created an environment in which it is impossible to ignore what is so easily ignored: the very essence of the beauty that is winter...
...this exhibit is to be excessively cold, but it is also to appreciate the spectacular inherent in even the most prosaic of all materials. Van Valkenburgh allows the ice to show itself. The Radcliffe Quadrangle Ice Project is precisely that, a demonstration of ice, of its limitations, its beauty and the hold it has on all of our imaginations...
...Valkenburgh said that he and Brian Aviles, his graduate student assistant, have considered making the light "blood red neon--something warm and visceral in the winter...
...might be fun to do something with salvaged Christmas trees" to form a sort of hedge inside parts of the maze,Van Valkenburgh...