It's hidden behind a subscriber-only link, but I've got a short article in the new issue of Metropolis, about Minnesota's Art Shanty Projects...
"For the past four winters a kind of sci-fi skid row has sprung up on the temporarily frozen surface of Medicine Lake, in the western suburbs of Minneapolis. This year a humble plywood post office provides a station for writing letters that will actually be mailed. There is a Korean song room with a corrugated roof, and a jutting teahouse with clear plastic walls that offers cupcakes along with views of the lake. Called Art Shanty Projects, the annual folk-architecture experiment features nearly two dozen cabins – each a unique variation on the traditional Minnesotan ice-fishing shed." Etc. etc. However, the shacks come down in three days...
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short but sweet, Geoff.
more: a documentary short on this year's art shanties via Minnesota Stories
ah, the romance of the shanties..
![](http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2004/07/17/ege/resim/yazsipahi.jpg)
"Slums on Ice" - the theme for next year...
I just put up heaps of more info on BLDGBLOG, if that interests anybody.
Some of the shacks:
![](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/390398506_6961d14829_m.jpg)
![](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/390398505_3310df5c46_m.jpg)
![](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/390398503_d0c05ea69a_o.jpg)
![](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/390398509_68217f1a7f_m.jpg)
a few of these were in chicago in 2005
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