Rice University Alumnus Ready to Freeze Detroit Abandoned Home

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Rice University Alumnus Ready to Freeze Detroit Abandoned Home

Richard Longoria

Story Created: Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04 PM CST

Story Updated: Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04 PM CST

DETROIT (AP) - A photographer and an architect plan to freeze
one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes this winter.
     
They'll be encasing the structure in ice to draw attention to
foreclosures that have battered the region.
     
The project from Gregory Holm and Matthew Radune, dubbed Ice
House Detroit, is the latest example of the remnants of Detroit's
population loss and industrial decline.
     
Radune developed the idea for Ice House while studying
architecture at Rice University in Houston.
     
After talking it over with Holm earlier this year, they decided
to collaborate. A book and film about the project also are planned.

     
On the Net:
     
Ice House Detroit: http://icehousedetroit.blogspot.com/      
     
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)
     
AP-NY-10-27-09 0919EDT

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