Last month we posted about a project in Detroit by Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune. The Ice House was an architectural installation meant to call attention to the foreclosure plight in the city. The project was completed, and Holm contacted us this week to point us to the video above which he and a film crew put together, documenting results of their work. The film is beautiful and eerie, and a great look at a project we weren’t able to see ourselves. Watch the video on Vimeo at the link below.

Ice House Detroit on Vimeo

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.

Ice House Detroit