Residential Tuesday 2008.0304

Tue Mar 4 20:44:12 PST 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

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Probably most of us are still involved, at one level or another, with 
calibrating our budgets and operations to these still-unfolding,
challenging market conditions...

	U.S. construction spending fell a sharper-than-expected
	1.7 percent in January, led by a fall-off in private home
	building, government data on Monday showed in a report
	that marked a continued decline in the housing market.

	January's decline to a $1.121 trillion seasonally
	adjusted annual rate was the sharpest since a 3.6 percent
	deceleration in January 1994 and marked the fourth
	straight monthly drop.

	Analysts polled by Reuters before the report were
	expecting construction spending to fall 0.7 percent.
	December spending was revised lower to a 1.3 percent
	decline from the 1.1 percent drop previously reported...

January Construction Spending Falls 1.7 Percent - Reuters, 2008.0303
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN2924124420080303

Residential Design and Building News
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Brumby's Urban Boom - Herald Sun (Australia), 2008.0305
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23320533-5000117,00.html

Irish Builders Call for Salary Freeze as Housing Boom Ends - Bloomberg, 2008.0304
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a2l9GTITpZcw&refer=uk

Ghana: Affordable Housing - All Africa, 2008.0303
http://allafrica.com/stories/200803031406.html

U.S. Manufacturing, Construction Spending Slump - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0303
http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7354261

Weyerhaeuser Closes Plant in Oregon - Seattle Business Journal, 2008.0303
http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/03/03/daily5.html

FEMA Evaluating Non-Traditional Alternatives to Trailers and Mobile Homes - GovTech, 2008.0303
http://www.govtech.com/gt/268952?topic=117691

NYC Home Building Busiest in Decades - Forbes, 2008.0303
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/03/03/afx4725177.html

Street of Dreams Homes Burned, Eco-Terrorists Suspected - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2008.0303
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/353498_arson04.html?source=mypi

Canada Home Building Investments Up 8.5 Pct in '07 - Reuters, 2008.0303
http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCAN0336384720080303

Migrant Home Builders to Ease Shortage - Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.0303
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/03/03/1204402365340.html

The Townhouse Scourge - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2008.0303
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ae/353511_arch04.html

The Most Affordable New Home in the U.K.? - Easier Property, 2008.0303
http://www.easier.com/view/UK_Property_News/West_Yorkshire/article-165837.html

What’s a Historic House You Can’t Enter in Style? - New York Times, 2008.0302
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/02colwe.html?ref=nyregionspecial2

A Tiny, Beloved Home That Was Built for Spite - New York Times, 2008.0229
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/travel/escapes/29away.html?ref=realestate

Builders Holding Onto Deposit Money - San Luis Obispo Tribune, 2008.0229
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/business/national/story/291908.html

Modernist Home Gets a 21st Century Update - The Globe and Mail, 2008.0229
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080229.re-boddy-0229/BNStory/RealEstate/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail

Building Consents Flick Up but House Market Softening - Stuff, 2008.0228
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4418266a13.html

Builders' Stocks Rise as Home Sales Fall - USA Today, 2008.0227
http://www.usatoday.com/money/markets/2008-02-27-home-builder-stocks_N.htm

First Hong Kong Biennale - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0227
http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0227/index.html
	Construction frenzy may have taken hold of Shanghai and
	Beijing, not to mention China's hundreds of other towns
	and cities. But for the past ten years, Hong Kong has
	floated behind serenely, like a successful, rather
	conservative older cousin. 

People and Places  - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0227
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/news_1-1.html
	NTD Architecture in Rancho San Diego, California -
	CommArts and Cohos Evamy in Calgary, Canada - McLarand
	Vasquez Emsiek & Partners in Irvine, California -
	Philippe Rondeau Architecture in Jinan, China - LAB
	Architecture Studio in Nanjing, China - SmithGroup in
	Detroit, Michigan - RTKL Associates Inc. in Sun City
	West, Arizona...

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     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/quiz.html

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	Name these architects:
	1.  Designer of the Tiffany Building in New York City.
	2.  Born on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia, in 1901.
	3.  Early in career, designed the Gulf Oil Building in
	Atlanta, Georgia.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0227/answer.html

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