Residential Tuesday 2007.1030

[ArchitectureWeek Editors]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis weekly
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	"At the current existing-home sales rate of 5.04 million
	units a year, it would take a full 10.5 months to sell the
	4.4 million existing homes now on the market, according to
	data released by the National Association of Realtors (NAR)
	on Oct. 24. The supply of existing single-family homes was
	at 10.2 months in September -- the highest since February,
	1988. Compare that with the height of the housing boom in
	January, 2005, when it reached a record low 3.6 months."

America's Big, Fat Housing Inventory - Yahoo News, 2007.1030
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20071030/bs_bw/oct2007db20071024022437


Residential Design and Building News
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Suburbs in Revolt - Belfast Today, 2007.1030
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Suburbs-in-revolt.3426204.jp

The Reality Show 'Dream Home' That's Become a Nightmare for Its Owners - Daily Mail, 2007.1030
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490695&in_page_id=1770

Martin House Work Nets Top Honor - Buffalo Business First, 2007.1030
http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2007/10/29/daily13.html

First Home Builders Slashes 200 Jobs - Builder Online, 2007.1029
http://www.builderonline.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=26&articleID=600141

Let's Get Building - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.1029
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/adam_sampson/2007/10/lets_get_building.html

Alcoa House Was Model for Modernity in 1957 - Grand Rapids Press, 2007.1028
http://www.mlive.com/homeimprovement/stories/index.ssf?/base/features-0/1193552327245560.xml&coll=6

When the Price Includes Tenants - New York Times, 2007.1028
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/realestate/28cov.html?ref=realestate

Inland Buyers Shunning Mega-Homes, Experts Say - Press-Enterprise (California), 2007.1027
http://www.pe.com/business/local/stories/PE_Biz_D_shrinkinghouse28.20811e6.html

Tampa to Add Affordable Homes - MSNBC, 2007.1027
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21507818/

Expanding the Metropolis - New Zealand Herald, 2007.1027
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=76&objectid=10472417

The Pop-Up Mansion - Wall Street Journal, 2007.1026
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119335727963572276-Huntv9dEOWuOeF2YZ4hNJ1_N8Uo_20071124.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

The Power of the HIA - The Age (Australia), 2007.1026
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/the-power-of-the-hia/2007/10/26/1192941331978.html

Modern in Style, Bohemian in Spirit - Los Angeles Times, 2007.1025
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-venice25oct25,0,6880208.story?coll=la-home-middleright

Reports Suggest Broader Losses from Mortgages - New York Times, 2007.1025
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/business/25mortgage.html?em&ex=1193457600&en=306d5ec90da8dec6&ei=5087%0A

For a Surfer, Indoor Waves and Boards - New York Times, 2007.1025
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/garden/25studio.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Living Steel Competition 2007 - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1024
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/1024/index.html
	Living Steel has announced the three winners of its second
	International Architecture Competition for Sustainable
	Housing. The consortium of steel companies challenged
	participants to design innovative, resource-efficient
	housing solutions using steel.
	The competition targeted locations for affordable-housing
	prototypes: Recife, Brazil; Wuhan, China; and the Thames
	Gateway area on the east side of London. Brazilian firm
	Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados won for its Recife
	design, Knafo Klimor Architects of Israel won the China
	component of the competition, and British firm Cartwright
	Pickard Architects won for its Thames Gateway prototype.
	... full story continues online (10 images, two free):
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/1024/news_1-1.html

It's Official: Homebuilding's Lost It - Motley Fool, 2007.1024
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/10/24/its-official-homebuildings-lost-it.aspx

Greener Green Roofs
    by Christian Werthmann
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1024/environment_1-1.html

	The sedum roofs of today symbolize performance-oriented
	green roof design.  Like fine-tuned engines, they run on
	leaner artificial substrates with almost no organic
	matter; volcanic rock or expanded shale, baked at 2000
	degrees Fahrenheit (1093 degrees Celsius), make the
	substrates lighter and soil depths as thin as possible.
	... full story continues online (10 images, two free):
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/1024/environment_1-1.html

Metamorp Houses - Waterloo Chronicle, 2007.1024
http://www.waterloochronicle.ca/wat/news/news_908778.html

Home Builders: Worst Is yet to Come - CNN, 2007.1024
http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/24/news/economy/builders_forecast/

It's Ugly, Stupid - The Stranger, 2007.1024
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=424494

Product News - Residential Touchless Faucet by Moen
     http://www.archweek.com/2007/1024/products_update.html
        
People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1024/news_2-1.html

	NAC|Architecture in Seattle, Washington -- FXFOWLE
	Architects, PC in Greater Noida, India -- Callison in
	Dallas, Texas -- Burt Hill and Andropogon Associates, Ltd.
	in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- KKE Architects, Inc. in
	Minneapolis, Minnesota -- Clark & Green in Lenox,
	Massachusetts -- NBBJ in Orange, California -- design:x in
	West Hollywood, California -- Perkins + Will and Guenther
	5 Architects in New York, New York...
	... short stories online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/1024/news_2-1.html

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	How fast will sound travel in a room with normal air pressure? 
	Answer in feet per second, or meters per second.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1024/quiz.html

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	Steel heated to about 752 degrees Farenheit (400 degrees
	Celsius) turns a red that is visible in the dark. At 975
	degrees Farenheit (524 degrees Celsius), the same steel
	would glow visibly during the daylight. At what
	temperature would the steel turn white with heat?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1024/answer.html

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