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Recent Examples of wickiupPart tipi, part wickiup, and influenced by many architectural styles, a round lodge can block wind, rain, cold, and sun.—Popular Science, 28 May 2020 The wickiup is a bit like a small tipi made from poles, brush and vegetation.—Popular Science, 28 May 2020
Pods, cabins, wigwams, huts, and treehouses are also available.
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Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
Its layout also ties the home to its earthly landscape; the living room is inspired by the Native American wigwam, with elements including a central fireplace and a hole in the top to let the smoke out.
However, her topless form is showcased in a sculpture that a fellow beatnik/hippie artist, played by Charles Bronson, is working on in her beach shack, when Burton’s Edward comes to call.
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Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
12 Aug. 2025
Walk into a crowded beach shack, a trade show or a sales pitch.
The motion picture world of today reminds me of Rio – opulent penthouses (big IP) on one side of the street, and hovels (independent movies) on the other.
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Bill Mechanic,
Deadline,
15 May 2025
Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I., ending one of the longest and most expensive manhunts in American history.
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Serge F. Kovaleski,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
About 200 people were gathered on a rooftop in Chinatown for an art opening inside a former storage shed.
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Wendy Goodman,
Curbed,
8 Aug. 2025
Folly, is a steel structure, a kind of modern ruin said to reference the structure of a old calf shed, set among the garden trees of Huis Doorn, a 19th century manor in the Netherlands.
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