Residential Tuesday 2007.0109

Tue Jan 9 12:17:38 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.  Hope you had a great holiday!  

And now for the view from a different perspective...

	"It is a fine feeling to step into the elevator of an
	apartment building, press the button marked "PH" and take a
	ride to the top -- or at least near the top. And at a time
	when the wealthiest New Yorkers are getting even wealthier,
	there are more buildings in Manhattan with many more of
	these elevator buttons that bespeak the privileges of
	penthouse living...

	"While many Manhattan developers are scrambling to find
	buyers for their newly constructed and converted luxury
	apartments, they say they're having little trouble selling
	their penthouses, which have become the trinkets of choice
	in the wake of the city's record Wall Street bonus season...

	"At 170 East End Avenue (at 88th Street), Skyline Developers
	sold one penthouse for $12 million, and the one next door
	for $14 million. Skyline's president, Orin Wilf, said he had
	turned down an offer of $14.5 million to see if he could get
	$16 million for each of the two remaining penthouses.
	Fifty-one of the 93 units are unsold in the building..."

The Lure of Living Above It All, by Christine Haughney
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/realestate/07cover.html

Residential Design and Building News
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Saner Pace for New-Home Construction - Orlando Sentinel, 2007.0108
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/growth/orl-realhome0807jan08,0,2430879.story?coll=orl-news-growth-headlines

Prototype "Sears Virtual Home" to Open in Second Life - IBM Press Release, 2007.0108
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=200647

A Home Dressed to Kill - Naples News, 2007.0107
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/jan/07/home_dressed_kill/?business

Affordable Housing Sparks Debate - New Times Live, 2007.0107
http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1027828

New Rules Make Sure New Homes Measure Up - Oregonian, 2007.0107
http://www.oregonlive.com/special/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/116806292583930.xml&coll=7

Design for Everyone, Disabled or Not - New York Times, 2007.0107
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/realestate/07nati.html

Guidelines Deemed Necessary to Keep Neighborhood Character - Vacaville Reporter, 2007.0106
http://www.thereporter.com/business/ci_4963099

Katrina Victims Find a Solution: Modular House - New York Times, 2007.0106
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/06/us/06modular.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Annapolis Capital, 2007.0105
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/01_05-10/HOM

Architectural Gem Changes Builder's Plan - Lexington Herald-Leader, 2007.0104
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/living/home/13780319.htm

Garden Wall House - Canadian Architect, 2007.0104
http://www.canadianarchitect.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?story_id=190299144541&issue=12012006

A 180-Degree View of a Hotbed of Housing Design - New York Times, 2007.0104
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/garden/04window.html?ref=garden

Container House - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0103
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0103/building_1-1.html

Home Depot's Robert Nardelli Resigns - Reuters, 2007.0103
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?storyID=2007-01-03T133110Z_01_N03383942_RTRUKOC_0_US-HOMEDEPOT-NARDELLI-INSTANT.xml

High Cost of Housing Suit - Baltimore Sun, 2007.0102
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-md.ci.fees02jan02,0,2306683.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

Boxed in, He Crafts House That Stacks Up Nicely - Sacramento Bee, 2007.0101
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/101240.html

Housing Slump Expected to Weigh on Economy in 2007 - Boston Herald, 2007.0101
http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=174834

Product News - New Snow Guards from EcoStar
     http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0103/products_update.html

Classic Home 70 - Kaufmann Desert House, by Richard Neutra
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/classic_home.html

People and Places -
     Lee Harris Pomeroy Architects of New York City unveils a 56-story luxury hotel 
     and condominium building in in Tianjin, China.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/people_and_places.html

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         "Analysis serves to understand a problem... then
	there's the creative aspect which comes through
	intuition."
	    "I need to go and explore and ask a place -- and intuit
	its aspirations, sense its history. I believe that a
	place contains the potential for its own
	transformation. If one listens, it will tell you what
	to do."
	    "Creating an architectural structure means taking
	possession of the earth. It means transforming a
	condition of nature into a condition of culture through
	man's work and addressing the needs of the community."
	    These quotes are from the designer of the Leeum Samsung
	Museum of Art, Seoul South Korea and Villa Redaelli,
	Bernareggio, Italy. Who is this architect?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last week's quiz...
	In evaluating and comparing paints, a critical piece of
	information is the amount of volume solids in a
	particular paint. What does "volume solids" refer to?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/answer.html

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     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0103/contents.html

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