Residential Tuesday 2007.0814

Tue Aug 14 21:15:41 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. 

Our selections this week include ongoing coverage of two now-familiar
topics: U.K. flood recovery and the widening crisis related to
U.S. subprime loans. 

Also, architecture students from the University of Utah, under the
guidance of professor Hank Louis, have designed and built the fourth in
a series of homes donated to families on the Navajo Reservation:

	U. Of Utah Architecture Students Complete House for Navajo Couple - Deseret Morning News, 2007.0813
	http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,695199741,00.html

And a Barcelona-based company plans to open a zero-gravity space
hotel by 2012:

	Space Hotel to Offer Guests 18 Sunrises a Day - Telegraph, 2007.0812
	http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/12/scihotel112.xml

Residential Design and Building News
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Vacation Homes as Art Projects - New York Times, 2007.0815
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/realestate/greathomes/15gh-mexico.html?_r=1&ref=realestate&oref=slogin

Miners Driving Home the Pressure - The Australian, 2007.0814
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22240104-5001641,00.html

HIPS Disaster Leaves Inspectors Facing Ruin - Telegraph, 2007.0814
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/12/nhips112.xml

Subsidized Homes Top Priority of Central Gov't - China Daily, 2007.0814
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2007-08/14/content_6025588.htm

Homing in on Houses - Economic Times (India), 2007.0814
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Indias_60_and_way_to_go/Homing_in_on_houses_/articleshow/2279463.cms

US Loan Crisis Set to Claim Fresh Victims - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0812
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2146838,00.html

Fearful Investors Turn and Run from a Spiralling Crisis - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0812
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2146855,00.html

Worldwide Plunge in Share Prices Brings Hope of a Rate-Rise Reprieve - Independent Digital, 2007.0812
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article2856856.ece

The Buy-to-Bulldoze Homes Scam - The Times (London), 2007.0812
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article2241756.ece

Storm Clouds for Builders - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0812
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/12/RET6R9MD4.DTL

Renovating a Building, and Perhaps a Suburb's Image - New York Times, 2007.0812
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/nyregion/12building.html?th&emc=th

3-Story Home's Building Code Problems Increase - San Jose Mercury News, 2007.0810
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_6591027

An Offer You Can't Refuse? - Telegraph, 2007.0807
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2007/08/07/plandgrabbing07.xml

Yes, in Your Backyard - Building (UK), 2007.0807
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=31&storycode=3092951&c=0

Inflation Set to Rise in Aftermath of Floods - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0805
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2141635,00.html

Home Repossessions Soar to Eight-Year High - Telegraph, 2007.0804
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/03/nhome103.xml

People and Places This Week - Bilbao, Chicago, Haikou, Dallas,
    Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, Prince Frederick, 
    Edinburgh, St. Helena, Minneapolis, Santa Monica, Yakutsk, 
    Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sacramento, San Diego:
	 http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/0801/people_and_places.html

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     http://www.archweek.com/2007/0801/products_update.html

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This Week's Quiz -	
	While "broach" can mean a piece of jewelry, it is also
	used as a verb and a noun in stone masonry. What is a
	broach in masonry terms?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0801/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	In response to concerns about climate changes, there has
	been a movement in several areas of the country to
	require higher levels of environmental responsibility in
	the design and construction of buildings. In some cases
	this effort is led by architects, such as in Oregon,
	where architects have helped initiate legislation (not
	yet adopted) requiring state-funded buildings over a
	certain size and cost to meet LEED (Leadership in Energy
	and Environmental Design) Gold standards. Many of us
	think of "green" architecture as being mostly concerned
	with energy conservation. LEED addresses energy and four
	other major areas of concern. What are the four other
	areas that LEED addresses?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0801/answer.html

Classic Home 069 - Azuma House, by Tadao Ando
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0801/classic_home.html

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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week - 
     Sawn fossil-stone wall and steps in coursed ashlar (WA-126)
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0801/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
     Suburban Renewal by Jan Spencer
     http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0814/environment_1-1.html

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