Residential Tuesday 2007.0213

Tue Feb 13 16:51:47 PST 2007

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.  

Working with the housing industry in Japan some ten years ago, I was
impressed that virtually every unit for rent or sale was listed with
a scaled floor plan drawing.  It's positive to see this practice
picking up at least in one leading market in the U.S.  Do you use
floor plans in residential property marketing?  Drop us a line and
let us know why, or why not.

	"There are things New York apartments typically lack - a
	yard, a parking place, a washer-dryer. But there is one
	thing they do possess: floor plans, most often derived from
	buildings' original marketing materials.

	"Floor plans are important when an apartment goes on the
	market and a listing goes on the Web, real estate agents
	say, because buyers in New York depend so heavily on them..."

Where Floor Plans Are Sought After, and Why, by Joyce Cohen - New York Times, 2007.0211
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/realestate/11floor.html?ref=realestate

Residential Design and Building News
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SFPE Survey: Americans Typically Misjudge Fire Risks - Fire Engineering, 2007.0212
http://fe.pennnet.com/display_article/284127/25/ARTCL/none/HOME/SFPE-survey:-Americans-typically-misjudge-fire-risks/

Design with Cause - Canadian Architect, 2007.0212
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?story_id=300093911&issue=02012007&PC=

Our Homes Are Not Well Insulated - Gisborne Herald, 2007.0213
http://www.gisborneherald.co.nz/article.asp?aid=8312&iid=645&sud=27

Home, Sweet Dream - The Age (Australia), 2007.0212
http://www.theage.com.au/news/tim-colebatch/home-sweet-dream/2007/02/12/1171128895298.html

Clothing Dryers Cause over 15,000 House Fires Each Year - All Headline News, 2007.0212
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006438371

Louisiana Katrina Insurance Suit Begins - Forbes, 2007.0212
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/12/ap3420217.html

End of the Road for the Cul-de-Sac? - Manchester Evening News, 2007.0212
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/235/235902_end_of_the_road_for_the_culdesac.html

Builders 'Putting Up Shoddily Designed Houses' - Telegraph, 2007.0210
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/09/nbuild09.xml

Study Measures Life Expectancy of Common Home Components - NAHB, 2007.0209
http://www.nahb.org/news_details.aspx?sectionID=148&newsID=4035

Broken Homes - BBC News, 2007.0208
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6339469.stm

Eco-Friendly Home Building Gains Steam - Birmingham News, 2007.0207
http://www.al.com/living/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/living/1170843790122620.xml&coll=2

Home Building Will Recover, Says Industry Group - Australian Broadcasting Company, 2007.0206
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1841570.htm

Couple's House Is Home for Good - Dallas Morning News, 2007.0206
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/home/stories/020607dnbusuniversal.1a0011a.html

Fitting In - Boston Globe, 2007.0204
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/02/04/fitting_in/

Product News - 	LEVELROCK(R) lighter underlayment for steel framing
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0207/products_update.html

People and Places -
    Urban residential block in the Wateringse Veld, The Hague, The Netherlands
    T. Michael Blake, AIA promoted, designer of Heritage Crossing mixed-income neighborhood
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0207/people_and_places.html

Classic Home 55 - Jennings F. Sutor House by Pietro Belluschi
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0207/classic_home.html

This Week's Quiz -	
	You are designing an elevator for your new building and,
	in reviewing the code, you discover that you are required
	to provide emergency doors if you have a blind hoistway.
	What is a "blind hoistway"?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0207/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	The following projects were completed two years apart
	during the same decade; Vietnam Veterans Memorial,
	Washington DC; AT&T Building, New York; Thorncrown
	Chapel; and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
	Who is the designer of each, and which in decade were
	they built? If determining the decade is too easy, try
	ordering them from oldest to newest.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0207/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Stacked metal sash awning windows (WI-041)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0207/contents.html

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