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Go See this Heart-Shaped Ice Sculpture in Westlake Park
The new icy installation in downtown's Westlake Park will be up through Valentine's Day
Updated on 2/11 at 9:35 a.m.: A tipster on Twitter informed us that the ice sculpture had taken a bit of a tumble overnight and we confirmed with the DSA that the mix of too-high temperatures and precipitation caused the display to fall. The heart shape is no more, though the ice blocks are still there. It was fun while it lasted!
Love is indeed in the air in downtown’s Westlake Park. A 7,500-pound, heart-shaped ice sculpture is on display now through Valentine’s Day (and if the weather holds out, days after) to “send a message of love in downtown Seattle,” according to the Downtown Seattle Association (DSA).
The sculpture stands between eight- and 10-feet tall and was carved on Monday from 25 blocks of ice that each weighed 300 pounds. At night, it will be lit with pink light.
Westlake Park has become a hotspot in recent years for art installations, 40-foot-tall geodesic domes, pingpong and foosball tables, colorful pianos and rotating foodtruck pods.
Blue Sky Passage, a shipping container filled with back-lit sunny-sky scenes, was the DSA’s first art installation this year. It ran through February 6.
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