Residential Tuesday 2006.1121

Tue Nov 21 14:30:42 PST 2006

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis 
every week in this free email newsletter from the editors of 
ArchitectureWeek.

Is it the stateside holiday week? If you're with us this issue,
you'll find an unusually high degree of readability and a wide 
range of topics in this week's news.

The cornerstones are again sales and pricing relative to recent 
trends, plus affordability relative to income:
  US House Building at Six-Year Low - BBC News, 2006.1117
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6158478.stm
  Home Building Plummets to 6-Year Low, Revives Fears - Chicago Tribune, 2006.1118
  http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0611180112nov18,0,3993979.story?coll=chi-business-hed

And now, with roasting turkey almost in sight, for something
completely different:
	"It appears that the only way to introduce a bit of
	blue-sky thinking into the housing market is for
	someone who has no experience of development to wade in
	with some ludicrously unproven and theoretical ideas.
	Which makes me ideally qualified. ..."
I'm Building a Suburb - The Times (London), 2006.1119
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14051-2455180,00.html

Residential Design and Building News
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Japan Aims for Self-Sufficient Housing - BBC News, 2006.1120
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6150816.stm

Gap between Growth of Income and Housing Costs Grows - Union Bulletin, 2006.1120
http://www.union-bulletin.com/articles/2006/11/20/local_news/local05.txt

Dream House Sours - St Petersburg Times, 2006.1120
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/11/20/Hillsborough/Dream_house_sours.shtml

£19 Million for Overcrowded and Homeless Families in London - 24Dash, 2006.1120
http://www.24dash.com/socialhousing/13267.htm

Building Homes for Ghanaians, a Priority - The Statesman (Ghana), 2006.1120
http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/editorial_detail.php?newsid=88&section=0

Could This Be Your Home of the Future? - Sunderland Echo, 2006.1120
http://www.sunderlandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1512&ArticleID=1886757

(Roof) Lines Drawn in the Sand - Chicago Tribune, 2006.1120
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0611200187nov20,1,7688369.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

I'm Building a Suburb - The Times (London), 2006.1119
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14051-2455180,00.html

'Smart' Homes to Eat Their Rubbish - Guardian Unlimited, 2006.1119
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,,1951978,00.html

Yale Exhibit Shows Appeal of Contemporary Houses - New Haven Register, 2006.1119
http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17486742&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=566835&rfi=6

Chavez's Caracas Home-Building Sows Hope - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.1119
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Chavezs_Promises.html

Home Temptations - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 2006.1119
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/business/16053088.htm

Gloom for New Buyers as House Prices Keep Rising - Scotsman Online, 2006.1118
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1707942006

Home Building Plummets to 6-Year Low, Revives Fears - Chicago Tribune, 2006.1118
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0611180112nov18,0,3993979.story?coll=chi-business-hed

US House Building at Six-Year Low - BBC News, 2006.1117
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6158478.stm

Mounting Under-Supply of Housing - Infolink (Australia), 2006.1115
http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/03/0C047303.aspx

FEMA Homes Were Destroyed in Storage - Houston Chronicle, 2006.1114
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4334606.html

People and Places This Week - 
	Venice, California  - Promotions at The Jerde Partnership
	New York - high-end residential development unveiled in Central Harlem
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1115/people_and_places.html

This Week's Quiz -	
	What are some of the considerations you would use in
	deciding whether to use a gloss or a flat finish?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1115/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last 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/2006/1115/answer.html

Classic Home 57 - William Beard House, by Richard Neutra
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1115/classic_home.html

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     http://www.architectureweek.com/2006/1115/products_update.html

Current ArchWeek Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Tinted and weathered windows in industrial sash (WI-013)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2006/1115/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
    Singapore Architecture Awards, by ArchitectureWeek
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/1114/index.html

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