Residential Tuesday 2007.0605
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Tue Jun 5 15:48:36 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.
Housing numbers as they come out continue to show the overall
softness of the U.S. market:
It's news that should surprise no one: housing prices are
falling. According to the quarterly S&P/Case-Shiller
index released earlier this week, prices declined 1.4%
nationwide for the first quarter, against an 11% rise in
the same period in 2006. It was the first such decline in
15 years, and some of the strongest evidence to date that
the talk of a softening housing market is making an
impression on sellers.
Two-Way Housing Numbers, One-Way Street - The Slatin Report, 2007.0531
http://www.theslatinreport.com/story.jsp?StoryName=0531ofheo.txt
Residential Design and Building News
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Housing Slump, Job Losses Conflict - Sun-Sentinel, 2007.0604
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/chi-mon_immigrantjun04,0,6112559.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines
Affordable Housing: A Question of Extremes - Boca Raton News, 2007.0603
http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&refno=19965&category=Main%20Headline
...Eyes on the Grand Prize - The Times (London), 2007.0603
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/interiors/article1864671.ece
'Flip This House' Star Accused of Fraud and Faking Work on Show - USA Today, 2007.0603
http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2007-06-03-house-flipper_N.htm
Thatching Revival Rescues Ancient Craft - Telegraph, 2007.0603
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/03/nthatch03.xml
Misery for Millions on [Escalating] Mortgages - Telegraph, 2007.0603
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/03/nmort03.xml
'Katrina Homes' Draw Keys Interest - MSNBC, 2007.0603
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19008680/
The Rise and Rise of the £1m Flat - U.K. Times, 2007.0603
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article1864608.ece
Miami's Affordable Housing Program in Crisis - Miami Herald, 2007.0602
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/126805.html
A Lake House Divided - Minneapolis St. Paul Star Tribune, 2007.0601
http://www.startribune.com/417/story/1215698.html
Accessible Design? As Long as It's Not Ugly - The Globe and Mail, 2007.0601
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070601.wxlaccessibility01/BNStory/lifeHouseHome/home
Remodeling Craze - Memphis Business Journal, 2007.0601
http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2007/06/04/story2.html?b=1180929600%5e1470082
The Day Half of My Home Collapsed Around Me - Daily Mail, 2007.0601
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=459105&in_page_id=1770
House Recycling - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0530
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0530/environment_1-1.html
Depending on your generation, you may have been taught:
"Waste not, want not." Thrift is certainly one incentive
for deconstructing buildings for reuse. In addition, many
of us are motivated by a desire to be environmentally
sensitive, a fondness for antiques and other items from
the past, a yearning to have more control over the
quality of materials used in construction, or a
recognition that many of the materials available for
salvage are of higher quality than those produced today.
Determining Shenzhen - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.0530
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/building_1-1.html
It is a historical fact that with economic transition
comes environmental change. Perhaps there is no greater
influence on the physical environment than the rapid
industrial and economic development of towns and cities.
Building Codes, Revamped Since Andrew, Still Being Worked On - Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 2007.0530
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070530/APN/705301434
UConn Dorms: Occupied, Uninspected - Hartford Courant, 2007.0526
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-uconndorms0526.artmay26,0,6289395.story?coll=hc-headlines-local
Product News - CULTEC large-capacity plastic underground chambers
http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/0530/products_update.html
People and Places This Week - Scottsdale, San Diego, Milan, Frederick,
San Francisco, Eugene:
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0530/people_and_places.html
For people concerned about our global climate crisis response...
Petition for the Resignation of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin
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Edward Larrabee Barnes, FAIA was posthumously awarded the
American Institute of Architecture's Gold Medal award. He
was the sixth person to receive this award posthumously.
The best known of the other five had a significant career
outside of architecture. Who do I refer to?
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Recycle quiz:
a) Recycled aluminum requires about 5, 20, or 35 percent
of the energy required to produce virgin aluminum from bauxite?
b) Recycling one ton of paper saves what volume of landfill?
c) Construction and demolition waste constitute about
what percentage of the total solid waste stream in the
United States - 20, 40, or 60 percent?
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