Residential Tuesday 2007.0925

Tue Sep 25 22:26:36 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.

Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department released its monthly housing
report which shows a continuing downward trend in new home construction.
August saw a 2.6 percent drop in housing starts overall, with a 7.1
percent decline in single-family housing starts and a 12.8 percent rise
in new multi-family housing.

U.S. Home Construction Drops to Fresh 10-year Low in August - Associated Foreign Press, 2007.0919
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5idNj0zagW2qpnEr4ICuoYofd4RBQ

Residential Design and Building News
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Building Industry Feels the Pinch as Housing Crunch Hits - The Age (Australia), 2007.0926
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/building-industry-feels-the-pinch-as-housing-crunch-hits/2007/09/25/1190486309800.html

Behind Closed Doors - Moscow Times, 2007.0925
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2007/09/25/026.html

Barratt Regeneration Project Is Building for Life Winner - Construction & Maintenance, 2007.0924
http://home.nestor.minsk.by/build/news/2007/09/2414.html

Housing Woes Knock Down Stocks of Builders - Los Angeles Times, 2007.0924
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-builders24sep24,1,3242373.story?coll=la-headlines-business

Housing Market May Face More Bad News - CNN, 2007.0924
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200709241150DOWJONESDJONLINE000387_FORTUNE5.htm

Eroded Alaska Village Begins Building New Site - Indian Country, 2007.0924
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096415787

Building Material Inflation Rises 1.5 Percent from 2006 - Multi-Housing News, 2007.0924
http://www.multi-housingnews.com/multihousing/content_display/industry-news/e3ifece286fedde1f14a01138cec4dc59f1

Smart Growth a Smart Idea? - Corpus Christi Caller, 2007.0923
http://www.caller.com/news/2007/sep/23/smart-growth-a-smart-idea/

Is It a Bathtub, or Is It Sculpture? - New York Times, 2007.0923
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/realestate/commercial/23sqft.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

Not Your Average, Everyday Architect - The Globe and Mail, 2007.0922
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070922.KUWA22/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/

Sweat Equity: They Don't Build 'Em Like That Anymore - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0922
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/22/HOS3S80QE.DTL

Country Homes: Building New, Fitting In - The Globe and Mail, 2007.0921
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070920.re-sarahshouse-0921/BNStory/RealEstate/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail

New-Build Homes Awarded Quality Status - The Times (London), 2007.0921
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/new_homes/article2496991.ece

Before Buying a Prefab - New York Times, 2007.0921
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/travel/escapes/21your.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Pssst! Modernism Hidden Within - San Francisco Chronicle, 2007.0921
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/09/21/carollloyd.DTL

An Irish House Hides in Plain Sight - New York Times, 2007.0920
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/garden/20irish.html

Home Building Rates in the US Fall - Irish Times, 2007.0919
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0919/breaking57.htm

Living in Hope - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.0919
http://society.guardian.co.uk/communities/story/0,,2171830,00.html

Home Builders Offer Deals to Lure Nervous Buyers - MarketWatch, 2007.0918
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/home-builders-offer-price-cuts/story.aspx?guid=59AF392D-1246-4BEE-B285-EB6E2A215139&dist=SecMostMailed

Sipping from a Utopian Well in the Desert - New York Times, 2007.0916
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/travel/16next.html

Nice, but Can It Wash Itself? - New York Times, 2007.0913
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/garden/13clean.html

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This Week's Quiz -
       House sizes around the world have been increasing even as
       family sizes have been shrinking. As of the mid-1990s,
       the average family size in the United States was four,
       according to a report from the United Nations, while the
       average size of a new U.S. home was 1,600 square feet
       (150 square meters). At that time, only one of the
       following had a larger average new house size. Was it
       Japan, Kuwait, Israel, or Great Britain?
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0919/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
       The first exterior glass elevator built in the United
       States was for the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego,
       California. Dubbed the Starlight Express, the elevator
       carried passengers to the twelfth-floor Starlight Room
       Restaurant. Was this elevator constructed in 1938, 1956,
       or 1967?
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/0919/answer.html

Classic Home 073 - Red Hill House, by Christopherchris Architecture
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