Architect restores “floating house” in Power House neighborhood
Charlie O’Green is the latest creative doer to buy a house on the narrow blocks north of Hamtramck we’re staring to call the Power House neighborhood, named for the innovative projects of artist-designer couple MItch Cope and Gina Reichert.
ReadyMade magazine makes a left at Conant and Lawley St. to check it out.
Excerpt:
Detroit architect Charlie O’Geen is on a mission to make his house float above the ground. I met him when I traveled to Detroit to spend three weeks in a residency program called DFlux in the neighborhood known as No Ham (or North Hamtramck). I intended to research the city’s urban design, and ended up focusing more on community development. This is how I found a pocket of DIY home-owners taking advantage of an artistic community and cheap real estate to turn 1920’s era immigrant homes into modern architectural experiments. Charlie is one of those people.
Read the entire piece here.
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