Residential Tuesday 2007.0220

Tue Feb 20 16:50:15 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.  

Back to basics time again, still... Read the trends and take your pick.

	It has been a rough ride for home builders and their
	shareholders for the past eight months or more. And more
	tough love struck in mid-February, as U.S. housing starts
	plunged a startling 14.3% from year-ago levels. The drop
	far outpaced a consensus estimate that projected a mere
	2.6% year-over-year slide. The starts slowdown was the
	worst in a decade, and seemed just another bad-news hit
	for the industry that has largely been credited with
	lifting the U.S. economy out of the post-dot-com
	recession.

Bubble or Bounce? - Opinion at Slatin Report, 2007.0220
http://www.theslatinreport.com/story.jsp?StoryName=0220kim.txt

Residential Design and Building News
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A Hundred Years Later, Kit Homes Still Attract Admirers - Hampton Roads, 2007.0220
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=119642&ran=77350

Bungalows Biting Dust for Suburban-Size Homes - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0219
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/304253_teardown19.html

Castles in the Air - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0219
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2016286,00.html

Rethinking Suburbia - Style, 2007.0219
http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=13812

In Building Homes, Mod Is Not so Odd - Orlando Sentinel, 2007.0218
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/home/orl-modular1807feb18,0,3488472.story?coll=orl-shoppinghg-headlinesforthe

Housing Woes Ripple Down - Inside Bay Area, 2007.0217
http://origin.insidebayarea.com/business/ci_5249131

Designer Living - Courier Mail, 2007.0217
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21236609-3102,00.html

Homes for Export; Assembly Required - Los Angeles Times, 2007.0217
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-chinahome17feb17,0,4726653.story?coll=la-home-business

Polishing a Modernist Gem - News & Observer, 2007.0217
http://www.newsobserver.com/371/story/544016.html

Teaching an Old House New Tricks - The Globe and Mail, 2007.0216
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070216.RETROFIT16/TPStory/Environment

Housing Starts Plunge - CNN, 2007.0216
http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/16/news/economy/housingstarts/?postversion=2007021610

High-Tech Advances Add Smart Design to Homes - Courier Press, 2007.0216
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/feb/16/high-tech-advances-add-smart-design-to-homes/

A House Turned Inside Out - Los Angeles Times, 2007.0215
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-hm-rogers15feb15,0,7771477.story?coll=cl-art-features

State Farm Pulls Back in Mississippi - Orlando Sentinel, 2007.0215
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-bizbriefcase1507feb15,0,4294466.story?coll=orl-business-headlines

Remodeling Naturally - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0214
http://www.archweek.com/2007/0214/environment_1-1.html

Dark Side of the Housing Boom: Shoddy Work - CNN, 2007.0214
http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/13/magazines/moneymag/construction.moneymag/?postversion=2007021411

High Cost of Home Building in NZ - NZ City, 2007.0214
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.aspx?id=70352

New Heights in Harlem - The Slatin Report, 2007.0212
http://www.theslatinreport.com/story.jsp?StoryName=0212delano.txt

Product News - 	GridPoint Connect(TM) intelligent energy management hub
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0214/products_update.html

People and Places This Week - 
     $3 billion development in Sahl Hasheesh, Egypt, on the Red Sea
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0214/people_and_places.html

This Week's Quiz -	
	Aluminum does not "rust" ― true or false?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0214/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue'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/2007/0214/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Casement windows in fieldstone wall (WI-033)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0214/contents.html

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    Tree Sculpture Engineering, by William Gorlin
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0213/building_1-1.html

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