Residential Tuesday 2006.1114

Tue Nov 14 16:38:08 PST 2006

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

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	"[Three families profiled] all got their wishes, but
	only after making a sacrifice that many other house
	hunters would find unthinkable: they downsized, moving
	to homes that had 120 to 4,800 fewer square feet than
	their old houses.

	"The moves were worthy of salmon swimming upstream,
	given that American homebuyers have been in a
	decades-long rush into bigger homes. The median size of
	a house was 2,227 square feet in 2005, up 50 percent
	from 1973, the Census Bureau says.

	"Still, there are signs of retreat ― among young
	families as well as empty-nesters. In the Northeast,
	new homes built last year had fewer square feet than
	those built in 2004; overall in the region, home size
	has remained basically flat for four years."
                           -- New York Times (linked below)

Residential Design and Building News
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End of the Story for Coastal Builders? - Los Angeles Times, 2006.1113
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-mcmansion13nov13,1,2643680.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

New 'Frank Lloyd Wright' Home Rises; Purists Protest - Bloomberg, 2006.1113
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=aXt_82IA24v4&refer=home

Homes Go "Eco-Modern" - WOWT, 2006.1113
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/4625906.html

The Open House - New York Magazine, 2006.1112
http://nymag.com/realestate/realestatecolumn/24080/

Architect Refuses to Compromise His Style - The Ledger, 2006.1112
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061112/NEWS/61112001/1039

Buyers Lament Flawed Homes - Cincinnati Enquirer, 2006.1112
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061112/BIZ01/611120347/1076/BIZ

Affordable Habitat - Fresno Bee, 2006.1112
http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/12792.html

In a Smaller Home, More Room for Refinement - New York Times, 2006.1112
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/business/yourmoney/12small.html?_r=1&ref=yourmoney&oref=slogin

Green Home Loans Boom - New Zealand Herald, 2006.1112
(very interesting article despite misleading headline)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/12/story.cfm?c_id=12&ObjectID=10410375

Tiny Kitchen Stylish, Efficient After Redo - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2006.1111
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06315/737399-30.stm

A Public Housing Design Outshines Upscale Rivals - Philadelphia Inquirer, 2006.1110
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/home/design/15974817.htm

Wood-Frame House Ready for 6.7 Magnitude Quake - University of Buffalo Press Release, 2006.1109
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/fast-execute.cgi/article-page.html?article=82510009

A House Like No Other? - BBC News, 2006.1109
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6129968.stm

Peripheral Vision - Guardian Unlimited, 2006.1108
http://society.guardian.co.uk/communities/story/0,,1941664,00.html

Design Opens Door to Aging in Place - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 2006.1108
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061108/NEWS/611080383/1006/SPORTS

Modular Homes Gain Favor with Builders - Orlando Sentinel, 2006.1106
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-cover0606nov06,0,4707088.story?track=mostemailedlink

Beijing's 2006-2010 Home Building Plan - CCTV, 2006.1106
http://www.cctv.com/program/bizchina/20061106/101809.shtml

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People and Places This Week - 
	Chicago - Jahn, Tigerman housing projects
	Baltimore - Silo Point adaptive reuse condominium project
	Orestad, Denmark - Steven Holl Architects mixed-used development
     Oakland - Jill Williams, AIA, to head KTGY Group's new office
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1108/people_and_places.html

Classic Home 57 - William Beard House, by Richard Neutra
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1108/classic_home.html

This Week's Quiz -	
	True or false? The general rule-of-thumb for moisture
	protection at the building envelope is to provide vapor
	barrier shields on the side of the wall that’s warm in
	the winter.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1108/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last week's quiz...
	Please name five methods of concrete crack repair.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1108/answer.html

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