Ice House
Somewhere in Detroit photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune are encasing an abandoned house in ice. The “architectural installation,” Ice House Detroit, is being blogged about from start (fundraising) to finish (disassembling the house and recycling the usable materials). Their purpose is to bring attention to the foreclosure problem in Detroit (Holm estimates “nearly one in every four homes in the neighborhood is either in a state of disrepair or abandoned”) and some of the funds they raised went to paying the back taxes on another foreclosed house, allowing a single mother and her family to move in. The project is starting to gain a lot of attention as it nears its February 7 completion date.
Check out their blog and follow their progress. We can’t wait to see the finished product because it already looks beautiful.