Residential Tuesday 2007.0116

Tue Jan 16 17:59:02 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.  

With a shortened holiday week in the U.S. (and heavy weather
around our Oregon headquarters), we're contemplating this market 
analysis from across the pond...

	'The European housing market is likely to slow down in 2007
	but not collapse, supported by purchases to offset concern
	about pension provisions, credit rating agency Standard and
	Poor's says.

	'The company's chief economist in Europe Jean-Michel Six
	told AFP that after years of boom across most of the
	continent, with the notable exception of Germany and
	Switzerland, the housing market would settle down.

	'"We expect and we hope for a slowdown in 2007," he said,
	pointing to concerns that people had incurred heavy debt to
	buy homes.'

European Housing Market Set to Slow: S and P - Yahoo Finance, 2007.0114
http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/14012007/323/european-housing-market-set-slow-s-p.html

Residential Design and Building News
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Town Houses Find Their Niche - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0116
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299804_townhomes16.html?source=mypi

New Year, New Homes - Reuters, 2007.0116
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/216872/11ba4cd16ac862a607cb9a3b5e83632a.htm

Lumber Costs Fall; Other Building Materials Rise - Wichita Eagle, 2007.0116
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/16467881.htm

No Sprinklers in Deadly W.Va. Fire - KFMB, 2007.0115
http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.76984.html

Shaking for Stronger Homes - CF News 13, 2007.0114
http://www.cfnews13.com/FamilyAndHome/YourHome/2007/1/14/shaking_for_stronger_homes.html

Modular Homes Go on Display Along the Coast - WLOX, 2007.0114
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=5937838&nav=6DJI

Five Ways Early American Homes Made Life Better - USA Weekend 2007.0114
http://usaweekend.com/07_issues/070114/070114house_design.html

Return to New Orleans: Hope or Harbinger? - Philadelphia Daily News, 2007.0114
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/nation/16454144.htm

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Timber Frame Sets Lake House Apart - The State, 2007.0114
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/living/home/16455028.htm

Preserving the Past - Florence Times Daily, 2007.0114
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070114/NEWS/701140360/1011

Strengthening a Home Likely Means Lower Premiums - Miami Herald, 2007.0114
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/16450282.htm

Super-Sized Homes Fuel Global Warming - Upstate House, 2007.0112
http://www.upstatehouse.com/rss-display.php?id=inmannews61174

Built with Wild Abandon - Los Angeles Times, 2007.0111
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-laurel11jan11,0,5241796.story?coll=la-home-home

Swiss Ambassador's Residence - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0110
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0110/design_1-1.html

Product News - Shake-Style Impact-Resistant Shingle from Certainteed
     http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0110/products_update.html

Classic Home 71 - Howard House, a contemporary green exemplar
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0110/classic_home.html

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     Dubai Towers mixed-use project announced by TVS
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0110/people_and_places.html

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	Museum of Art, Seoul South Korea and Villa Redaelli,
	Bernareggio, Italy. Who is this architect?
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