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Mushroom houses for Gaza? Arab designers offer home-grown innovations As winter descends on Gaza's tent cities, emergency housing made from mushrooms could keep out the cold -- just one of several ...

Kathy Ehrmann fell in love with a whimsical 1921 cottage-style house in Minneapolis' Lowry Hill the moment she saw it. For one, it was one of the few "mushroom houses" in the Twin Cities.