Residential Tuesday 2007.0123

Tue Jan 23 22:47:41 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.  

	'Teresa Elsbernd, attending a recent public hearing at
	Minnetonka City Hall, didn't seem quite sure what to think
	about the increasing number of supersized homes being built
	in the city's established neighborhoods. On her first trip
	to the microphone, the homebuilder described the city's
	so-called "McMansion" policy -- which restricts the ratio of
	house size to lot size -- as unnecessary. After listening to
	other speakers, however, she returned to the podium to say
	there are "a lot of bad builders" out there -- and that
	Minnetonka's new rules won't help as much as worried
	residents might hope.'

As McMansions Spring Up Next Door, so Do Questions - MSNBC, 2007.0119
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16746917/

Residential Design and Building News
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A Brief History of Housing in Ghana - Statesman (Ghana), 2007.0123
http://www.thestatesmanonline.com/pages/news_detail.php?newsid=2158&section=7

Building on a Good Thing - London Free Press (Canada), 2007.0122
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/BusinessMonday/2007/01/22/3424400-sun.html

New Orleans Housing Authority Tries to Clear Protesters - Boston Herald, 2007.0122
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=178502

Tesco Plans to Break into House-Building Sector - Independent Digital, 2007.0122
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2175071.ece

Natural Expansion - Haaretz, 2007.0122
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/816076.html

Wanted: Tradesmen and Labourers to Build Homes in Iceland - Ottawa Business Journal, 2007.0122
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/293124659445431.php

St. Louis Architectural Legacy Is Fading Fast - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2007.0121
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/visitstlouis/story/1520C0602B15309C862572690000F236?OpenDocument

New Downtowns Are in the 'Burbs - Morning Call, 2007.0121
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5mainstreetjan21,0,7700118.story

Homes the Real Solution to Homelessness - Miami Herald, 2007.0121
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/16500758.htm

Desert Storm - The Times (London), 2007.0121
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14052-2553890,00.html

Smart Homes: The Heat Is on to Go European Style - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0120
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/athome/300115_smart20.html

The 'Copper House' Is Green with Energy - Kentuck Herald-Leader, 2007.0120
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/living/home/16495250.htm

Fair Housing Practices: The Back Door to Classroom Diversity - Milaukee Jounral-Sentinel, 2007.0120
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=554715

Home Building Rebounds, but ... - CNN, 2007.0119
http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/18/news/economy/housingstarts/?postversion=2007011914

Building Codes Not Evenly Enforced - Union Democrat, 2007.0118
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=22469

Multi-Family, Affordable, Urban and Green - World Changing, 2007.0118
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005850.html

Total Housing Starts Up, but Single-Family Starts Down - NAHB, 2007.0118
http://www.nahb.org/news_details.aspx?sectionID=148&newsID=3941

Double Front Yard for 'Mini-Mansions' - Sacramento Bee, 2007.0117
http://www.sacbee.com/103/story/110717.html

In Suburbia, Going to Great Lengths to House Lofty Spaces - Washington Post, 2007.0114
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/13/AR2007011301070.html

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

Product News - Light Emitting Capacitor paper-thin panels from CeeLite
     http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0117/products_update.html

People and Places -
     Condominiums in Covington, Kentucky by Daniel Libeskind and GBBN architects
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/people_and_places.html

Classic Home 71 - Howard House, a contemporary green exemplar
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/classic_home.html

This Week's Quiz -	
	About how much does one yard (27 cubic feet, or 0.76
	cubic meters) of loose rock weigh? About how much does
	one yard of the same type of rock weigh when compacted?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
    How does rust form?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Asymmetrical bay window in metal-clad bay (WI-081)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0117/contents.html

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