10/02/2021
The Sapporo Snow Festival was started in 1950, when high school students built a few snow statues in Odori Park. It has since developed into a large, commercialized event, featuring spectacular snow and ice sculptures and attracting more than two million visitors from Japan and across the world.
Helsinki Cathedral [Large Snow Sculpture]
7 Chome HBC Venue is a plaza where friendship and cultural exchange with countries all over the world can be deepened.
This time, with the theme of the Republic of Finland, the beautiful Nordic country with which this year marks the 100th anniversary since establishing diplomatic relations with Japan, we will produce a giant snow sculpture of Helsinki Cathedral (Helsingin tuomiokirkko), which stands almost in the middle of the capital city Helsinki.
Known as St. Nicholas’ Church until Finland’s independence in 1917, Helsinki Cathedral, with the beautiful contrast of its white outer walls, green domes, the apostles’ images on the roof, and the splendid relief on the outer walls, is a most impressive metropolitan landmark. German Carl Engel designed it, and afterward his successor Ernst Rollman inherited the construction work, completing it as a Neoclassical structure in 1852.
The Japan Self Defense Force Northern Army Signal Group will use their expertise to reproduce the glamour of the building to represent not only Helsinki but the country of Finland.
※Production of Large Snow Sculpture Model and Large Snow Sculpture /Japan Self Defense Force Northern Army Signal Group.
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