Diamond Genesis Room at Sweden’s Icehotel is a Crystalline Cavern of Frosty Luxury

<a title="Architizer: Diamond Genesis, Luxury Carved from Ice" href="http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/39139/icehotel-diamond-genesis/">Diamond Genesis</a>, also known as Room 339, at Sweden's <a title="Icehotel" href="http://www.icehotel.se/uk/ICEHOTEL/">Icehotel</a> offers a uniquely decorated brand of frozen luxury. Designed by French artist and designer Antoine Weygand and architect Roland Toupet, this simple, striking room offers guests a bed placed atop an illuminated plinth, gigantic glowing diamond-shaped sculptures, and an arched ceiling decorated with precisely carved geometric patterns. All of these elements are made of snow and crystalline ice, and they are kept at a frosty -5 degrees Celsuis "<a href="http://www.icehotel.com/uk/ICEHOTEL/Stay-at-ICEHOTEL/Stay-cold/">regardless of how cold it may be outside.</a>"

The Icehotel, situated by the Torne River in Jukkasjarvi, has been rebuilt each year for over 20 years. An "Ice Farm" located nearby provides the Icehotel with an incredible <a href="travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/winter-trips/ice-hotels/">30,000</a> tonnes of snow and ice each year to construct the 60 room <a title="7 Gorgeous Eco Resorts For a Green Escape" href="http://inhabitat.com/7-gorgeous-eco-resorts-for-a-green-escape/">building</a>.

While that may seem like a huge quantity of frozen water, the hotel <a href="http://www.icehotel.se/uk/ICEHOTEL/Press-media/press-releases/Record-early-ice-harvest-at-ICEHOTEL/">claims that 370 cubic meters of water passes Jukkasjarvi every second</a> - that's the equivalent of a new Icehotel passing the Swedish town every other second.

Each incarnation of the Icehotel features a number of <a href="http://www.icehotel.se/uk/ICEHOTEL/Art-design/">Art Suites</a> by designers from around the world who contribute one-of-a-kind rooms to the project, carving their work out of the <a href="http://www.icehotel.com/uk/ICEHOTEL/Stay-at-ICEHOTEL/">2 tonne blocks</a> harvested from the Torne River.

The results are fairly staggering, and often whimsical - two of last year's rooms were christened "Ice Fishing" and "Frigid Dare". Diamond Genesis offers enormous ice-carved renditions of precious stones, and the <a href="http://www.icehotel.se/uk/ICEHOTEL/Art-design/2011/Arktikos-Suite/">Arktikos</a> Suite invites guests to wake up surrounded by <a title="This Adorable Baby Polar Bear Needs a Name!" href="http://inhabitat.com/this-adorable-baby-polar-bear-needs-a-name/">polar bears</a> — made of snow, of course.

Jukkasjarvi is a small village, <a href="travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/winter-trips/ice-hotels/">purported to have a population of 900 residents and a thousand dogs</a>, but as home to the world's first hotel-meets-art-museum-inside-an-igloo, it has developed a name and an industry for itself. Over 55,000 people a year flock to the temporary accommodation to enjoy spectacular views of the <a title="PHOTOS: Inhabitat Spends the Night in Quebec’s Hotel de Glace Ice Castle!" href="http://inhabitat.com/photos-inhabitat-spends-the-night-in-quebecs-hotel-de-glace-made-entirely-from-ice/">northern lights</a>, winter-time recreation, and of course the unique ice-sculpted art and architecture.

Rates for the <a href="http://www.icehotel.se/uk/ICEHOTEL/Art-design/2012/Diamond-Genesis/">Art Suites</a> begin at around $112 per night, which include back up "warm" accommodation, winter clothing and a morning sauna.