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[Proteus]

In my region the winters are rather cold and the brook is frozen over for along time.
Therefore, I used one winter to complete the channel to my well.

Just for fun I also mined out 2 ice tiles and built 2 wall tiles with them inside my channel (out of one of them I carved out a fortification). (The ice is btw. incorrectly called water blocks, so instead of an ice wall I built a rough water block wall and a rough water block fortification)

Also just for fun I went out into the brook and smoothed and engraved one of the massive ice blocks there (resulting in an ice sculpture with a cedar engraved in it).

Well, spring came and the brook went fluid again and normally I would expect my ice sculpture to melt and the engraving to vanish.
Well, the ice sculpture melted, but the engraving was still visible and now is part of the brook. 

The second surprise came when I opened the flood gate and let the channel to my well fill with water. Normally I would expect the ice (or, rather, water block) pillar and fortification to melt and vanish.
This, however, didnīt happen. Instead I now have a damp rough water block pillar and a damp rough water block fortification within my channel, surrounded by water )

[Duke 2.0]

 (b)uild (C)onstructions cannot be destroyed by anything short of a cave-in. Even temperature has no power over walls.

 And yes, engravings can remain after ice walls melt. I think it's a klnown bug, as I saw somebody show the same thing on the DFMA.

[Proteus]

You mean I could use ice blocks to builod parts of my fortress and they wouldnīt only withstand the temperatures during summer, but even a direct dragon breath attack?

[Duke 2.0]

 Heck, make a magma channel. Nothing's going take down a construction. Wooden walls have the same resistances. I guess Dwarves like to make buildings that screw with the laws of physics.

 Natural walls I think have no such resistance. Melt those freshly-frozen walls!

 

[Derakon]

I remember making Warm Damp Rough Water Walls on a glacier fortress once.

[Draco18s]

(The ice is btw. incorrectly called water blocks, so instead of an ice wall I built a rough water block wall and a rough water block fortification)

The game doesn't know how to deal with the language where a frozen liquid has a different name than the liquid.  Afterall if mercury solidified we'd still call it mercury.  Same thing with chlorine, methane, and hydrogen.  Sometimes we afflix "solid" or "frozen" to it.

[Ter13]

I ran into this myself. I was building a bridge across a major river, which divides my map in half. I am tired of twenty migrants dying because they arrive on the west bank of the river.

So, I built the scaffolding out of the abundant ice blocks, and found to my amazement, in mid-summer, the scaffolding was still intact!

This is pretty amazing stuff.

[i2amroy]

 Heck, make a magma channel. Nothing's going take down a construction. Wooden walls have the same resistances. I guess Dwarves like to make buildings that screw with the laws of physics.

Just remember the Rule of Cool