Residential Tuesday 2007.1009

Tue Oct 9 23:57:37 PDT 2007

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More tales of adjusting markets...

	"In the hot real estate summer of 2005, the futuristic
	John Ross tower generated a buzz never seen before in
	Portland.

	"Within a week, 222 potential buyers plunked down $5,000
	or more to reserve their condos in the 31-story tower on
	the Willamette River. The talk around town was that
	developers couldn't build new big-city condos fast enough
	to keep up with downsizing baby boomers and newcomers.

	"But two years later, the condo boom is over.

	"Today, the John Ross has seen so many canceled purchases
	that developers actually have fewer buyers -- 192 -- than
	they did two years ago."

Shadow Falls on Condo Market - The Oregonian, 2007.1009
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/stories/index.ssf?/base/news/1191898514282930.xml&coll=7

Residential Design and Building News
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Off-the-Shelf IKEA Homes - Realty Times, 2007.1009
http://realtytimes.com/rtcpages/20071009_offshelf.htm

European Building Materials Industry Stable Despite Weak US Market - Forbes, 2007.1009
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/09/10/afx4098282.html

MP Calls for Action on Rural Housing - IC Wales, 2007.1009
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/farming/countryside/tm_headline=mp-calls-for-action-on-rural-housing&method=full&objectid=19920704&siteid=50082-name_page.html

Blue-Collar Builders Expand Empire to Glitzier Shores - New York Times, 2007.1009
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/nyregion/09lefrak.html?th&emc=th

Global Steel Demand Seen Rising 6.8% - Metal Producing & Processing, 2007.1008
http://www.33metalproducing.com/full_story.php?WID=16686

Economy on Fire, Homes Barely Alight - The Australian, 2007.1008
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22547461-2702,00.html

Labour Market Tight; Hint of New Life in Building - The Age (Australia), 2007.1008
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/labour-market-tight-hint-of-new-life-in-building/2007/10/08/1191695823545.html

Home Builders' Foundations Shift with Shaky Market - USA Today, 2007.1008
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2007-10-08-home-builders-downturn_N.htm

129 Acres, Renewed yet Affordable - New York Times, 2007.1007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/realestate/07livi.html?ref=realestate

How Do You Build Affordable Homes? - Vail Daily, 2007.1007
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20071007/NEWS/110070077

Taxes Climb and Tempers Flare - New York Times, 2007.1007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/realestate/07wczo.html?ref=realestate

Astrohome - New York Times, 2007.1007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/style/tmagazine/07astrohome.html?ref=tmagazine

The Future of Home Building - Greater Milwaukee Today, 2007.1007
http://www.gmtoday.com/news/local_stories/2007/Oct_07/10062007_07.asp

U.S. Home Builders, Saddled with Debt, Sell Assets and Cut Prices - International Herald Tribune, 2007.1007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/07/bloomberg/bxhomes.php

Size Matters - Metro Mode Media, 2007.1004
http://www.metromodemedia.com/features/BuildingHeights0038.aspx

When the Garden Designs the House - New York Times, 2007.1004
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/garden/04chris.html?em&ex=1191643200&en=eeb47b2087a2fd11&ei=5087%0A

Rural Homeless 'Twice Urban Rate' - BBC News, 2007.1003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7024888.stm

The Rapson Cube - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1003
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/1003/culture_2-1.html
	...Soon after the Rapsons moved to Minneapolis in 1954,
	they bought an 1897 Greek Revival-style house in the
	Prospect Park neighborhood, within walking distance of
	the university. When it came time to design and build a
	vacation home, however, Rapson wanted something else. "I
	always thought a country house should be different from a
	city house," he said. In the country, the modernist would prevail. ...
		http://www.archweek.com/2007/1003/culture_2-1.html

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     http://www.archweek.com/2007/1003/products_update.html

People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1003/news_1-1.html

	Steven Holl Architects in New York, New York -- Hamilton
	Anderson and SmithGroup in Detroit, Michigan -- Hodgetts +
	Fung, with Thornton Tomasetti in Valencia, California --
	RTKL Associates Inc. in Washington, D.C., District of
	Columbia -- ArchitektenRuediger in Braunschweig, Germany --
	Frank Lloyd Wright, with Anthony Puttnam and Hamilton
	Houston Lownie Architects in Buffalo, New York -- Handel
	Architects in San Francisco, California -- HOK in Atlanta,
	Georgia...
	... short stories online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/1003/news_1-1.html

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This Week's Quiz -	
	Name this building product: A positive-side waterproofing
	material with a base of plastic-type clay found primarily
	in the Black Hills region of the United States.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1003/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue'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/2007/1003/answer.html

Classic Home 074 - Mill Valley Straw Bale House by Arkin Tilt Architects
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