The conical shape of the grains found in natural columnar S2 ice, or in "usual" S2 ice grown in the laboratory by simulating the natural seeding conditions, enhances boundary sliding in the direction parallel to the column axes. A process to grow a structure-controlled columnar ice that exhibits homogeneous grain diameter and cylindrical grains, the c-axis orientation of which can be controlled, is described. Brick-shaped specimens of "structure-controlled" and "usual" columnar ice, with their largest facets cut perpendicular to the long axis of the grains, have been rested under uniaxial constant compressive stress. The comparison of the results shows the interest of using "structure-controlled" columnar ice, which can be more easily modeled by two-dimensional analysis, under appropriate loading conditions, for fundamental studies of the deformation mechanisms in ice.