Residential Tuesday 2008.0212
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Wed Feb 13 13:31:27 PST 2008
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NEW YORK (Associated Press) - If it's not being built,
they needn't come. The providers of everything from
lumber and concrete to wallboard and kitchen sinks
continue to struggle as residential construction contracts.
Halfway through the fourth-quarter reporting period, the
sector's major players are delivering sharp profit
declines and, in many cases, losses. None have offered
investors any hope for a recovery in 2008, and the stocks
continue to languish at or near 52-week lows.
The Dow Jones U.S. Building Materials index fell 18
percent over the past year. In January, the index fell
below 300 for the first time since mid-2006. ...
Building Materials - CNN, 2008.0207
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/c43da3cfa803141f321db1e77d3435ea.htm
Residential Design and Building News
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1950's Ranch Becomes a 21st Century Ultra-Modern - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2008.0214
http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/homeandgarden/stories/2008/02/11/HGBarber_0214.html
Foundations Laid for Affordable Homes - Scotsman Online, 2008.0212
http://business.scotsman.com/business/Foundations-laid-for-affordable-homes.3766472.jp
Action Plan to Increase Affordable Housing - Scoop, 2008.0212
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00141.htm
PM Puts Housing in the Spotlight - TV New Zealand, 2008.0211
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1579756
Professor Avi Friedman Talks Adaptive Housing - McGill Daily, 2008.0211
http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=7027
Home Builders, in Survival Mode, Head to Annual Conference - Market Watch, 2008.0211
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/real-estate-home-builders-seek/story.aspx?guid=%7BF1B2922A-8099-4A92-8A34-96A592930654%7D&dist=hplatest
A Thoroughly Northwest House Sets Itself on the Sights - Seattle Times, 2008.0210
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2004163206_pacificpnwl10.html
Shrink to Fit - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2008.0210
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080210-9999-1h10smal-jmp.html
Is This the New Dining Room? - Telegraph, 2008.0210
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/02/10/pdining110.xml
Legos for the Grown-Ups - New York Times, 2008.0210
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/nyregion/thecity/10pref.html?_r=1&ref=thecity&oref=slogin
Fewer Homeowners Plan Renovation Projects - USA Today, 2008.0210
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2008-02-10-renovations_N.htm
Builders Court Buyers with 'Price Protection' - Wall Street Journal, 2008.0208
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120225142659345415.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
In Tornadoes' Path, Focus Turns to Cleanup - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0208
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tornadoes8feb08,1,7217388.story
Forces Are Arrayed Against Overbuilding in Seattle - Puget Sound Business Journal, 2008.0208
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/02/11/focus5.html
Japanese Economy Likely Extended Growth in Q4 on Stronger Exports - Thomson FX Hub, 2008.0208
http://www.thomsonfxhub.com/fxhub/forex-news-detail.jsf?newsId=11693&title=Japanese%20economy%20likely%20extended%20growth%20in%20Q4%20on%20stronger%20exports%20-%20economists
Sizing Up the First 'Big' House for Review - Boston Globe, 2008.0207
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/02/07/sizing_up_the_first_big_house_for_review/
KieranTimberlake Firm Award - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0206
http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0206/index.html
The partners of KieranTimberlake Associates LLP approach
design as a holistic process that benefits from the
collective intelligence of architect, client, and others.
The American Institute of Architects has selected
KieranTimberlake to receive the 2008 AIA Architecture
Firm Award, recognizing the firm's approach to complex
challenges, its elegant buildings, its commitment to
sustainable design, and its extensive research.
Heavy Things Seem to Float in Air - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0206
http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0206/culture_1-1.html
Somewhere between the nostalgic musings of I. M. Pei and
the flickering of an independent-minded slideshow, noted
Marcel Breuer expert Barry Bergdoll expressed perhaps the
most remarkable aspect of Breuer's architecture: "by the
end of his career, even heavy things seem to float in
air." Bergdoll illustrated his point with a series of
striking images in which massive concrete structures
balance as if on tiptoe.
Manhattan Beach Draws Line in Sand on Mansions - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0205
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beachhouse5feb05,0,7624122.story
Builders Brace for Climbing Costs - Tennessean, 2008.0205
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080205/BUSINESS02/802050327/1003/NEWS01
First Glimpse of Flat-Pack Ikea Homes - Chronicle Live, 2008.0131
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2008/01/31/first-glimpse-of-flat-pack-ikea-homes-72703-20418301/
People and Places - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0206
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0206/news_1-1.html
HGA Architects and Engineers in San Francisco, California
-- Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa --
Frank Harmon Architect PA in Raleigh, North Carolina --
Carbondale in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland -- GTM
Architects in Gaithersburg, Maryland -- Thornton Tomasetti
in Los Angeles, California -- in Honolulu, Hawaii --
Wilkinson Eyre Architects in St. Petersburg, Russia --
ah'be landscape architects in Los Angeles, California...
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In trying to understand the value of a piece of
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Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
How many cubic meters of solid wood does the average
American use per year in the form of paper and other
products: 10, 40, or 75 (13, 52, or 98 cubic yards)?
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