Residential Tuesday 2007.0522

Tue May 22 14:41:42 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. 

Typically, our goal is not to emphasize environmental issues in this
residential market newsletter.  We have a specialist newsletter on
those topics, Green Wednesday.

But sometimes, there's no separation between what is a housing
design and building issue, and what is a green environmental issue. 
In such instances, it would be more false to the residential market
for us to avoid the green note.  This week seems like one of those
times:

	Environment Minister John Thwaites announced changes
	yesterday after "The Age" revealed that new homes built
	under the five-star system were 6 per cent less efficient
	than those built before its introduction three years ago.

	He conceded increased house sizes... had led to an increase 
	in new-home emissions.

Wholesale Changes to Home-Energy Ratings System - The Age (Australia), 2007.0521
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/changes-to-homeenergy-ratings-system/2007/05/21/1179601329970.html

Residential Design and Building News
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Trident International Holdings Forges Alliances to Create 'Pentominium' - AME Info, 2007.0521
http://www.ameinfo.com/120786.html

Making a Farce of Five-Star - The Age, 2007.0521
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/making-a-farce-of-fivestar/2007/05/20/1179601242790.html

Price, Place Key - Clarion Ledger (Mississippi), 2007.0521
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070521/NEWS/705210353/1001

Experts Question Impact of Subprimes - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 2007.0521
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070521/COLUMNIST86/705210662/1201/REALESTATE

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) - Kunstler - Atlantic Free Press, 2007.0521
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/1621/1/

Neglected Shuter Townhouses Collapse - Torontoist, 2007.0520
http://www.torontoist.com/archives/2007/05/neglected_shute.php

Housing Plan Turns Disney Grumpy - New York Times, 2007.0520
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/realestate/20nati.html?ref=realestate

Condos Tighten the Rules - New York Times, 2007.0520
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/realestate/20cov.html?ref=realestate

Badly Built New Homes 'Threaten Green Plans' - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0520
http://society.guardian.co.uk/communities/news/0,,2084543,00.html

Adding Bargains to the Housing Mix - New York Times, 2007.0520
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/realestate/20wczo.html?ref=realestate

The Rewards of Life on the Edge - Telegraph, 2007.0520
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/05/20/pbelle20.xml

Why Spend £10m on a House, Only to Knock It Down? - U.K. Times, 2007.0520
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article1802769.ece

Future Is Now in Home Design - Calgary Herald News, 2007.0519
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=f5dfe605-5d56-42cd-9863-e0dab39b5b45&k=13608

Alternative Homes - San Antonio Express-News, 2007.0519
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/realestate/stories/MYSA052007.1D.alternativehomes.28bf619.html

New Must-Haves for Luxury Homes - MSN, 2007.0518
http://realestate.msn.com/Improve/Article_forbes.aspx?cp-documentid=1357754

'McMansion' Swipe Sparks Outrage - Herald Sun (Australia), 2007.0517
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21743706-661,00.html

NAHB Lobbies to Expand Federal Energy Tax Credit Program - NAHB Press Release, 2007.0517
http://www.multi-housingnews.com/multihousing/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003586998

Call to End 'Housing Obesity' - The Age, 2007.0517
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/call-to-end-housing-obesity/2007/05/17/1178995244379.html

A Modernist Gem for Sale to the Highest Bidder - New York Times, 2007.0516
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/nyregion/16house.html?ref=realestate

Building Ups, Downs - Kansas City Star, 2007.0516
http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/110409.html

SoCal Concrete - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0516
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0516/building_1-1.html
	The Rice Residence, on a hillside above Los Angeles,
	expresses an idyllic Southern California lifestyle with
	daylight saturating every room, a floor plan that
	encourages casual indoor-outdoor living, and spectacular
	views of the Pacific Ocean in the distance.

Product News - TimberTech(R) FenceScape(TM)	low-maintenance fencing
     http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0516/products_update.html

People and Places This Week - New York, St. Louis, Charlottesville, 
    New Orleans, Chicago, Monterrey, Waltham, Pittsburgh:
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/people_and_places.html

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This Week's Quiz -	
	The Danziger Studio (1965) in Hollywood, California is a
	modern and simple artist's studio and residence
	consisting of linked cubes. This is an early work by a
	designer who has since become famous for decidedly
	un-cubic architecture. Who is this architect?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	In a wide concert hall with high ceilings, the center of
	the orchestra section often has good sight lines but poor
	acoustics. In fact, if you don’t mind using binoculars,
	you may get better sound in the back balcony. Why is this
	so and how can it be fixed?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/answer.html

Classic Home 074 - Straw Bale House, by Arkin Tilt Architects.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/classic_home.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Metal-clad skylight shutters (WI-204)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0516/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
    The New City Home, by Leslie Plummer Clagett
    http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0522/index.html

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