Residential Tuesday 2007.1120

Tue Nov 20 20:11:38 PST 2007

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis weekly
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The first step in surviving a challenging reality may be acceptance:

	'The collapse in home building continued in October as
	single-family home starts fell to a 16-year low and
	permits for all types of new homes dropped to levels not
	seen since 1993, according to the government's latest
	reading on the state of the battered home building market
	released Tuesday. ...

	'"It's unreasonable for builders to build with gusto
	when they're staring at an 11-month supply of houses
	on the market," said Mike Schenk, senior economist,
	Credit Union National Association. "If you like bad
	news and gloom and doom, keep reading these reports."'

Housing Permits Drop to 14-Year Low - CNN, 2007.1120
http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/20/news/economy/housingstarts/?postversion=2007112010

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October Housing Starts Up, Building Permits Down - Reuters, 2007.1120
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN2031469220071120

Housing Decline Exposes Building Materials Supplier - Herald Sun (Australia), 2007.1120
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22786684-664,00.html

At Subprime Event Too Early to Tell Who'll Survive - Bloomberg, 2007.1120
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=acYywk3n_iL8&refer=europe

Lenders See Home Loans Increase - BBC News, 2007.1120
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7102440.stm

Home Construction Climbs, but Building Permits Decline - Wall Street Journal, 2007.1120
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119556497636599181.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Nothing Stopping BOQ-Home Merger - Sydney Morning Herald, 2007.1120
http://news.smh.com.au/nothing-stopping-boqhome-merger/20071120-1bn3.html

Home Builders Remain Worried - Wall Street Journal, 2007.1119
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119549638832698131.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Live and Learn - Guardian Unlimited, 2007.1119
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2213221,00.html

U.K. Home Prices Fall - Bloomberg, 2007.1119
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=ain.XyjSVu5I&refer=uk

Through the Roof - New York Times, 2007.1118
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/realestate/18cov.html?ref=realestate

Coming Soon: Affordable Views - New York Times, 2007.1118
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/realestate/18njzo.html?ref=realestate

Home Builders' Woes Inflict Pain on Buyers - The State, 2007.1117
http://www.thestate.com/business/story/232122.html

Morocco Expands Construction of Low-Income Housing - Magharebia, 2007.1115
http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2007/11/15/feature-02

L-House on the Prairie - ArchitectureWeek, 2007.1114
http://www.architectureweek.com/2007/1114/today.html

	In the 19th century, the great majority of the houses of
	western Minnesota were cheap, plain, awkward, and
	unlovely. Harmony and unity emerged from the mundane
	clutter, however, in the form of the classic L-house,
	which became representative of much of the farming way
	of life in the Midwest.

	When the prairie families earned enough money to move
	out of their cabins and sod houses, they often built
	modest rectangular-shaped, one-and-a-half-story houses
	with simple gable roofs. These structures became
	L-houses when the families earned enough to add on the
	kitchen L and porch of a complete L-house.
        ... full story continues online (14 images, four free):
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/1114/culture_1-1.html

Cleveland's Road Not Taken - Free Times, 2007.1114
http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/28/clevelands-road-not-taken

When Home Builders Hit the Skids - Wall Street Journal, 2007.1114
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119499896076692014.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Abandoned House, Abandoned Hope in Meyerland - Houston Chronicle, 2007.1113
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/features/5298831.html

Residents Rue Result of Bulgaria Boom - Moscow Times, 2007.1113
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/11/13/050.html

Product News - Bracket-Mounted Gutter System from RHEINZINK(R)
     http://www.archweek.com/2007/1114/products_update.html

People and Places Page 2007.1114
    by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/news_1-1.html

	Ankrom Moisan Associates Architects in Portland, Oregon --
	Lord, Aeck & Sargent in Douglas, Georgia -- Michael Graves
	& Associates in Detroit, Michigan -- Halcrow Yolles in
	Chicago, Illinois -- Roldan + Berengue, arqts. in
	Barcelona, Spain -- SmithGroup and Stantec Architecture
	(Chong Partners) in Antioch, California -- Baker Barrios
	Architects, Inc. in Orlando, Florida -- CO Architects in
	Escondido, California -- HOK Sport in London, England,
	United Kingdom -- Perkings Eastman, Basler Mosa Design
	Group, and The Liebman Melting Partnership in New York,
	New York -- Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects in
	Assen, Netherlands -- HOK in Chicago, Illinois...
	... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2007/1114/news_1-1.html

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	Of standard, modular, and Norman brick, which has the
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	http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/quiz.html

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    Destroyed during the Bosnian War of the 1990s, this
	single-span bridge was reconstructed and reopened in
	2004. What is the name of this famous bridge, originally
	constructed in 1566?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2007/1114/answer.html

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