Residential Tuesday 2007.0508

Tue May 8 17:40:26 PDT 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. 

The "cheapest house in San Francisco" has not held up well.  
Thank goodness no one was injured!

	The rotting wood of Bill Zhou's blue Victorian in San
	Francisco's Sunnyside neighborhood crumbled into the
	foundation Sunday afternoon, damaging a neighbor's house
	in the process.

	Zhou and his wife purchased the house at 149 Mangels
	Avenue for $525,000 -- a bargain in a city where the
	median home price hit $755,000 last month. They planned
	to renovate the one-bedroom, 870-square-foot cottage
	themselves, including rebuilding the hillside home's 1910
	foundation and adding a second bedroom.

	When the house caved in, thunderously collapsing into a
	pile of rubble, residents of the quiet neighborhood on
	the city's south side said it sounded like a jet breaking
	the sound barrier. No one was injured, but a corner of
	the Victorian slammed into the house next door, breaking
	a window and cracking walls. ...

	CBS5’s Joe Vazquez walked through the very same house
	last November, in a story about the cheapest house in San
	Francisco. It was in a shocking state of disrepair. Some
	of the basement walls were being reinforced with cereal
	boxes. The house was listed for $399,000. A bidding war
	later drove the price back up to $525,000.

San Francisco Home under Renovation Collapses - CBS5, 2007.0507
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_127130229.html

Residential Design and Building News
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Modern Living Doesn't Have to Be Class Apart - Scotsman Online, 2007.0508
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=706202007

San Francisco Home under Renovation Collapses - CBS5, 2007.0507
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_127130229.html

American Dream Sours as Housing Market Collapses - Telegraph, 2007.0507
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/06/whouse06.xml

Chinese Cities in Danger of Housing Bubble: Report - The Hindu, 2007.0506
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200705060342.htm

Mesa City Council to Debate Hikes to Building Impact Fees - Arizona Republic, 2007.0506
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0506keyissue0507.html

Changes to Cheer About. Really. - New York Times, 2007.0506
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/realestate/06livi.html?ref=realestate

In Florida, a Home Market Still in Flux - New York Times, 2007.0506
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/realestate/06flor.html?ref=realestate

The Good Bones Were Still There, Hidden under the Additions - New York Times, 2007.0506
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/realestate/06sketch.html?ref=realestate

The Guy Who Picks the Best Places to Live - New York Times, 2007.0506
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/realestate/06cov.html?_r=1&ref=realestate&oref=slogin

A House with a Minimal Footprint - The Province, 2007.0506
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/money/story.html?id=ed96df07-d1e1-4219-9676-89a95c115728

Industry Also Copes with Housing Slowdown - Houston Chronicle, 2007.0505
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4777932.html

Is Vancouver Building a Design Gap? - Globe and Mail, 2007.0504
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070504.VANBODDY04/TPStory/National

Home Design Studio 11.0 - MacWorld, 2007.0504
http://www.macworld.com/2007/05/reviews/homedesign/index.php

Experts Slam Wasteful Housing Competitions - Building Design, 2007.0504
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3086395&origin=BDweekly

Glimmer of Hope for City Housing - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 2007.0503
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070503/NEWS01/705030402/1002/NEWS

Venetian Masterpiece - Telegraph, 2007.0503
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/05/03/plothbury103.xml

Icon of Modern Prefab to Be Demolished - Treehugger.com, 2007.0503
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/05/icon_of_modern.php

A House in the Country - Washington Post, 2007.0503
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050302215.html

Field Guide to Sprawl - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0502
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/building_1-1.html
	Words such as "city," "suburb," and "countryside" no
	longer capture the reality of real estate development in
	the United States.  Most Americans inhabit complex
	metropolitan landscapes layered with tracts, strips,
	malls, office parks, and highways.  Widespread
	dissatisfaction with speculative building has provoked
	many critiques, but precise terms to define the physical
	elements of sprawl are often missing.

Product News - 	Retractable Window Screens from JELD-WEN(R)
     http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0502/products_update.html

People and Places This Week - Indianapolis, San Francisco, Hollywood, 
     Oakland, Incheon, Rosemont:
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/people_and_places.html

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	The Roman Colosseum is an amphitheatre begun by Vespasian
	in AD 70 and completed by Domitian 12 years later. How
	many people could it seat: 15,000? 30,000? 50,000?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	It is hard to determine exact numbers, but it has been
	estimated that commercial and residential buildings
	consume about 65 percent of all electricity used in the
	United States and about 40 percent of all raw materials.
	These buildings account for about what percentage of
	greenhouse gases?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/answer.html

Classic Home 013 - 'Four-room bungalow', by Frederick L. Ackerman
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/classic_home.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
	Repetitive fenestration of three-mullion windows with raised 
	panel spandrels, modern commercial building (WI-158)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0502/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
    Designing Houses, by Michael J. Crosbie
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0508/design_1-1.html

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