Residential Tuesday 2007.0911

Tue Sep 11 21:36:13 PDT 2007

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

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Residential Design and Building News
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Prices Keep New Housing Static - The Australian, 2007.0911
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22397402-2702,00.html

Action Needed to Make Affordable Homes Available to Everyone - Centre Daily, 2007.0911
http://www.centredaily.com/331/story/203874.html

Neighbors Fear Development Will Overwhelm Wedgwood - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2007.0911
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/331172_wedgwood11.html?source=mypi

How Ignoring Building Codes Hurts Your Neighbors - Newsday, 2007.0911
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-lijoy115369423sep11,0,2719230.column

Hips Rolled Out to Three-Bed Homes - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0910
http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,,2166026,00.html

Uptick Seen for August Housing Starts, Not Reversal of Overall Slowing Trend - Canadian Press, 2007.0910
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i6Nm2Q2JSjy216cZzr4oj-T6J2Dw

House Prices Up 2% in a Month - U.K. Press, 2007.0910
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7P1Nr2c-WH9ih9s9rHa0ibsxxtw

Are HIPs Bringing the House Down? - Telegraph, 2007.0910
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/09/nrhips109.xml

Britain Plans New Wave of Home Building - International Herald Tribune, 2007.0910
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/10/business/house.php

Credit Woes Bad News for Home Borrowers - Sydney Morning Herald, 2007.0910
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Credit-woes-bad-news-for-home-borrowers/2007/09/10/1189276622631.html

Mortgage Fraud Infiltrates Suburbs - MSNBC, 2007.0910
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20663909/

Fruits of Foreclosure - Indianapolis Star, 2007.0909
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070909/BUSINESS/709090344/1003/BUSINESS

Undervalued Gems - Santa Fe New Mexican, 2007.0909
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/68210.html

Save Our Suburbs - Opinion at Telegraph, 2007.0909
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/08/nrsuburb108.xml

Poles Aim for the High Life - The Times (London), 2007.0908
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article2409908.ece

Interest Building in Concrete Homes - RecordNet, 2007.0907
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070907/A_BIZ/709070301

The HIP Effect Is 'Causing a Property Famine' - Daily Mail, 2007.0907
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=480613&in_page_id=1770

New Houses Out of Most Families' Reach - Detroit Free Press, 2007.0906
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/BUSINESS04/709060413/1002/BUSINESS

Homeward Bound - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0906
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/matthew_gandy/2007/09/homeward_bound.html

A Narrow Escape - New York Times, 2007.0902
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/magazine/02style-t.html

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       California - Robert A.M. Stern Architects LLP in Dallas, Texas...
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This Week's Quiz -
       Answer each question true or false:
       A. To find the number of cubic inches in a ball, multiply
          the cube of the ball's diameter by 0.5236.
       B. Doubling the diameter of a pipe increases its capacity
          four times.
       C. To find the pressure in pounds per square inch of a
          column of water, multiply the height of the column in
          feet by 0.434.
       D. A cubic foot of water contains 7.5 gallons, and 1,728
          cubic inches, and weighs 62.5 pounds.
       E. To find the diameter of a circle, multiply its
          circumference by 0.31831.
       F. A side of a square multiplied by 1.4142 equals the
          diameter of the square's circumscribing circle.
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0905/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
       We know that a conch is a type of shellfish. The term
       "conch" also describes an architectural form. What is
       this form?
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0905/answer.html

Classic Home 071 - Howard House by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects
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Contents, RSS, and Surface of the Week -
    Sandstone and stucco wall (WA-155)
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0905/contents.html

Five years ago in ArchitectureWeek:
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   http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0904/culture_1-1.html

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