Residential Tuesday 2007.0306

Tue Mar 6 15:34:11 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.  

It's not just the gradually developing needs of parents in my 
own family.  This week, from Boston to Utah and California, 
home accommodations for the elderly seem to be in the news, 
from elevators, to safety options, to inclusive or exclusionary 
zoning...

Home Elevator Use Zooms - Contra Costa Times, 2007.0305
    http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/16836709.htm
Too Grown Up? - Boston Globe, 2007.0304
    http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/03/04/too_grown_up/
A Home for the Ages - Salt Lake Tribune, 2007.0304
    http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5357449

Residential Design and Building News
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How Big Is Too Big? - Stamford Advocate, 2007.0305
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-nor.big.house5mar05,0,3331107.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines

Builders Paying to Start Home Building Program at Oakland - Murfeesboro Post, 2007.0305
http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=2778

Jupiter Among the Best in Housing Design Audit - Easier Property, 2007.0304
http://www.easier.com/view/UK_Property_News/West_Midlands/article-102938.html

Closing the Door on Open Houses - New York Times, 2007.0304
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/realestate/04COV.html?ref=realestate

Living Large on a Tiny Lot - New York Times, 2007.0304
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/realestate/04sketch.html

Homey, If You Don't Mind a Building Boom - New York Times, 2007.0304
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/realestate/04Livi.html?ref=realestate

Seeking to Preserve Eccentricity - New York Times, 2007.0304
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/realestate/04LiZo.html?ref=realestate

Building Better Value Homes Using Modern Approaches - First Rung, 2007.0304
http://firstrung.co.uk/articles.asp?pageid=NEWS&articlekey=4240&cat=44-0-0

Million-Dollar Middle America? - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2007.0304
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070304-9999-lz1n4million.html

Are Home Builders Out of the Basement Yet? - Wilmington Star, 2007.0304
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070304/ZNYT01/703040494/1002/business

Rock-Solid Homes - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.0303
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/home/16826015.htm

Maybeck's First House Was a Design Laboratory - Berkeley Daily Planet, 2007.0302
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=03-02-07&storyID=26477

Modern Building Methods Leave Contractors Stumped - Inside Housing, 2007.0301
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/article/?id=1448704

Housing Slump Hurts Home Depot - Chicago Tribune, 2007.0228
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0702238homedepot-story,1,1281064.story?coll=chi-bizfront-hed

A Basement as Bright and Airy as a Loft - Washington Post, 2007.0228
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/28/AR2007022800606.html

Stronger Building Codes Are Needed for Mississippi - Clarion-Ledger, 2007.0226
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070226/OPINION/702260315

U.S. Government Investigating KB Home Stock Options - International Herald Tribune, 2007.0225
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/25/bloomberg/bxoptions.php

Lofty Ambitions - Patriot Ledger, 2007.0224
http://www.patriotledger.com/articles/2007/02/24/business/biz01.txt

Lowe's Reports Record Earnings for Fiscal 2006 - Lowe's Press Release, 2007.0223
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-23-2007/0004533247&EDATE=

Product News - 	The Menswear Collection from Lees Contract Carpeting
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/products_update.html

People and Places This Week -
     Savannah River Landing to add luxury mixed use to historic Georgia
     Covenant House in Manhattan is getting a $25 million renovation
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/people_and_places.html

This Week's Quiz -	
	Please provide a definition of "gloss" as it refers to paint. 
	Rank these paint finishes from lowest light reflection to highest: 
	satin/silk, semi-gloss, eggshell.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	The new pedestrian bridge "Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir"
	crosses the Seine in Paris. It has a length of 885 feet
	(270 meters) and a main span of 620 feet (190 meters),
	yet its main structure, a "pectinate lenticular" truss,
	allows the bridge to be relatively light. Describe the
	basic "look" of the bridge.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Gable-shaped hood over double-hung wood window (WI-110)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0228/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
    A Housing Vision, by Pierre d'Avoine
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0227/index.html

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