What is "icehouse"

icehouse \ice"house`\ n. a building used for storing ice, especially one built partly below ground and insulated so as to preserve ice obtained during the winter from frozen lakes or rivers.

n. 1 A deep cellar or outdoor building used for the storage of ice or snow; sometimes also used to store food at low temperature. 2 (context US colloquial English) An ice hockey rink.

n. a house for storing ice

Icehouse or ice house may refer to:

• Ice house (building), a building where ice is stored
• Ice shanty, a shelter for ice fishing also known as an Icehouse

• Ice House (Moulton, Alabama), listed on the National Register of Historic Places
• ICEHOUSE (incubator), a business growth centre in New Zealand
• London Ice House, an arena in London, Ontario, Canada
• Medibank Icehouse (Winter Olympic Institute of Australia), Australia's only dual ice skating and ice sports venue
• Vivekanandar Illam, a palace at Chennai, India, also known as Ice House

• Icehouse (band), an Australian rock band from 1981, formerly known as Flowers (1977-1981)
  • Icehouse (album), a 1980 Australian rock album by band Flowers (later called Icehouse)
    • " Icehouse (song)", the title track, released as a single in 1981 by Icehouse

• Ice House (film), a 1989 film starring Melissa Gilbert and Bo Brinkman

• Icehouse (beer), a brand of American beer
• Icehouse (game), an abstract strategy game
  • Icehouse pieces, with which Icehouse and many other games are played
• Icehouse Earth (see Greenhouse and icehouse Earth), glaciated periods of Earth history

Icehouse is a turnless abstract strategy game invented by Andrew Looney and John Cooper. It was the first of many games played with Icehouse pieces.

Andrew Looney came up with the idea for a game played with pyramids in a series of science fiction short stories he was writing; several of the characters were obsessed with playing the game of Icehouse which had been recovered from the long-dead Martian civilization. John Cooper created the rules to make the game playable in real life.

Icehouse are an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in Sydney in 1977. Initially known in Australia for their pub rock style, they later achieved mainstream success playing new wave and synthpop music and attained Top 10 singles chart success in both Europe and the U.S. The mainstay of both Flowers and Icehouse has been Iva Davies ( singer-songwriter, record producer, guitar, bass, keyboards, oboe) supplying additional musicians as required. The name Icehouse, which was adopted in 1981, comes from an old, cold flat Davies lived in and the strange building across the road populated by itinerant people.

Davies and Icehouse extended the use of synthesizers particularly the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 (" Love in Motion", 1981), Linn drum machine (" Hey Little Girl", 1982) and Fairlight CMI ( Razorback trailer, 1983) in Australian popular music. Their best known singles on the Australian charts were " Great Southern Land", "Hey Little Girl", " Crazy", " Electric Blue" and "My Obsession"; with Top Three albums being Icehouse (1980, as Flowers), Primitive Man (1982) and Man of Colours (1987).

Icehouse's iconic status was acknowledged when they were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame on 16 August 2006. ARIA described Icehouse as "one of the most successful Australian bands of the eighties and nineties... With an uncompromising approach to music production they created songs that ranged from pure pop escapism to edgy, lavish synthesised pieces..." Icehouse has produced eight Top Ten albums and twenty Top Forty singles in Australia, multiple top ten hits in Europe and North America and album sales of over 28 times Platinum in Australasia alone. As of 2006, Man of Colours was still the highest selling album in Australia by an Australian band.

Icehouse was the debut album released by Australian rock/ synthpop band Flowers, later known as Icehouse, on the independent label Regular Records in October 1980. The title and the artist are sometimes incorrectly swapped, because the band changed their name from Flowers into Icehouse after this album was released. Containing the Top 20 Australian hits " Can't Help Myself", " We Can Get Together" and " Walls"; the album made heavy use of synthesisers, which would continue to be used throughout the band's career. Founder Iva Davies wrote all the tracks including four co-written with keyboardist Michael Hoste, however Hoste was replaced during recording sessions by Anthony Smith. In October 2010, Icehouse (1980) by Flowers was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.

"Icehouse" is a song by the Australian rock band Flowers. It was released as a single in Europe in 1982 by Chrysalis Records from the band's first album, Icehouse, after the band changed its name to Icehouse. In the United States, the song peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart in 1981.

"Icehouse" was written by founding member Iva Davies when he lived at 18 Tryon Road, Lindfield in an old, cold flat of a two-storey mansion—across the street was a dishevelled house which had its lights on all night peopled by short-term residents. Davies only learned that it was a half-way house for psychiatric and drug rehab patients after he wrote the song. Russell Mulcahy, an expatriate Australian living in London, directed the music video for "Icehouse". A remix version by Pee Wee Ferris & John Ferris was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.

The ICEHOUSE is a business growth centre that creates learning environments for entrepreneurial firms to enable them to significantly grow their companies. This charitable trust encompasses a business incubator for startup companies, a training company for owner managed companies and is home to New Zealand’s largest grouping of angel investors. The current CEO of The ICEHOUSE is Andy Hamilton.

The ICEHOUSE is a collaborative partnership between The University of Auckland Business School, The Boston Consulting Group, Telecom and Gen-i, BNZ, Ernst & Young, HP, and Microsoft. It was established in 2001, to reflect the partners’ commitment to empower New Zealand companies to achieve and sustain high levels of small and medium enterprises economic performance.

John Antony Hood, the previous Vice Chancellor of Oxford University said in his visit to New Zealand