My admirable friend Piet, professor and longtime animateur of McGill’s School of Architecture, had in 1996 some of his students build to seat-of-the pants spec on the front campus a (down)scale replica of the Pantheon in ice, a necessarily temporary but radiantly educative project. He’s more recently had a robot in an out-of-the-way basement room at McGill experimentally build various items of ice, including the first words of a line of poetry he’s long liked.
“It was the same wind as the wind of my boyhood, still careless in the prairie grass.” – W.O. Mitchell