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.
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