Residential Tuesday 2007.0313

Tue Mar 13 13:08:54 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.  

(Whistling past the slump...)  Big houses seem to be especially 
big in the media this week.

Supersized Houses May Be on Way Out - Philadelphia Inquirer, 2007.0311
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/home/home_improvement/16853526.htm

Supersizing the Bungalow - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2007.0307
http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/homeandgarden/stories/2007/03/07/0308LVhomes.html

Taking on the Monster Houses - The Gazette, 2007.0312
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=c45b2ac9-d08f-448f-8b33-f386dcb8bc9b&k=21367

Residential Design and Building News
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Foreclosures May Hit 1.5 Million Across U.S. - Denver Post, 2007.0312
http://www.denverpost.com/sportscolumnists/ci_5417984

First-Time Home Buyers Go Regional - The Age (Australia), 2007.0312
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/firsttime-home-buyers-go-regional/2007/03/12/1173548071330.html

The Dirty Secret Behind Our Building Boom - Victoria Times Colonist, 2007.0312
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=10feccf4-b87f-4638-9411-bd8f7a32e6ab&k=43910

Houses Just Got Smarter - The Times (London), 2007.0311
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/new_homes/article1487174.ece

The Harsh Side of the Housing Boom - San Luis Obispo Tribune, 2007.0311
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/state/16881759.htm

Building a Home in 2007: D.H. Horton CEO Says 'It's Going to Suck' - Times Herald-Record, 2007.0311
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070311/BIZ/703110338

Home Becomes an 'Island' in Building Row - Metro, 2007.0311
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=40673&in_page_id=34

Construction Materials Are No Longer Running Short - Houston Chronicle, 2007.0310
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4618372.html

Just What Is a Bungalow? - Berkeley Daily Planet, 2007.0309
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=03-09-07&storyID=26533

Kitchens Getting Bigger, Greener, Survey Says - Clarion Ledger, 2007.0309
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070309/FEAT03/703090311/1021

Olver Backs Housing Program - The Republican, 2007.0309
http://www.masslive.com/chicopeeholyoke/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1173429858229640.xml&coll=1

Green Building Hasn't Hit Home - Hartford Courant, 2007.0308
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-greenbuilding0308.artmar08,0,5530587.story?coll=hc-headlines-business

Avoiding the Cookie-Cutter Look - New York Times, 2007.0307
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/realestate/greathomes/07GH-HOME.html

The Sundanese House - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0307
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0307/culture_1-1.html
	Three hundred steps lead down to the Sundanese village of
	Kampung Naga. Here, in this valley of West Java,
	Indonesia, the people consciously maintain the knowledge
	of their ancestors and their traditional lifestyles in a
	close relationship with nature. This philosophy extends
	to their construction methods using local materials of
	timber, stone, bamboo, and palm leaves. ...

8NW8 in Portland's Pearl - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0307
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0307/news_1-1.html
	The ideals are familiar to any architect working in a big
	city: a project should be well designed, well built, and
	well integrated into its urban environment. And yet we
	have too few U.S. examples to follow when it comes to
	applying these principles to housing for the poor. ...

Product News - 	Green-Friendly Bio Glass from Coverings Etc.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/products_update.html

Classic Home 072 - Boomer House, by Frank Lloyd Wright
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/classic_home.html

People and Places This Week -
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/people_and_places.html

This Week's Quiz -	
	Ground rupture, ground shaking, and differential
	subsidence are three of the four main causes of
	foundation failure due to a seismic event. What is the fourth?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue'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/2007/0307/answer.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Arched and geometric fixed windows (WI-072)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0307/contents.html

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