Residential Tuesday 2008.0311

Tue Mar 11 23:34:03 PDT 2008

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	In 2007, the Chicago area's top 10 homebuilders closed on
	approximately 7,200 new homes. That's a lot of beautiful new
	residences - but the figure is a drop from 11,400 homes the
	previous year. The top 10 produced $2.6 billion in revenue
	last year, a decrease from $3.5 billion in the previous
	year.

	Builder No. 50 on the 2007 list had a volume of $9.3
	million; the previous year, builders with more than $20
	million in revenue couldn't crack the top 50.

	"The housing market is cyclical. It always has been and
	always will be," said Andrew Konovodoff, division president
	of Town & Country Homes, the No. 5 builder on the top 50
	list. "Today's cycle is the best buyers market in decades."

Top 10 Chicago Builders Sold 7,200 Homes in '07 - Chicago Sun-Times, 2008.0307
http://searchchicago.suntimes.com/homes/829244,topten07.article

Residential Design and Building News
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Stocks Sail on Fed's New Tack - Forbes, 2008.0311
http://www.forbes.com/markets/economy/2008/03/11/briefing-fed-tslf-markets-econ-cx_ss_0311markets13.html

Residential Sprinkler Code Vote in September - Firehouse.com, 2008.0311
http://cms.firehouse.com/web/online/In-the-Community/Whats-it-Going-to-Take/9$58626

Irish Home Builders See Further Output Fall in 2009 - Reuters, 2008.0311
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSL1160524920080311

Life and Death of an Urban Recluse - Helsingin Sanomat, 2008.0311
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Life+and+death+of+an+urban+recluse/1135234722129

Interbay in Transition: From 'No Man's Land' to Urban Village - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2008.0310
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/354361_interbay10.html?source=mypi

Bovis Warns on Market Conditions - BBC News, 2008.0310
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7287032.stm

Credits for First-Time Home Buyers No Way to Help Economy - Capital Times, 2008.0310
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/letters/276381

How to Build a House for £4,000 - BBC News, 2008.0310
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/7275312.stm

How Building Slump Hurts Nearly Everyone - Financial Week, 2008.0310
http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080310/REG/80871837/1023/OTHERVIEWS

Israel Approves Home Building in West Bank - New York Times, 2008.0310
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/world/middleeast/10mideast.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

River House: Take an Old Swimming Pool - Telegraph, 2008.0309
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/03/09/punderground109.xml

Lenders Clamour to Fund New Houses - Stuff, 2008.0309
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4431776a13.html

Offer Builders Incentives for Affordable Housing: Report - Star-Phoenix, 2008.0308
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=663cf901-397e-4bba-9a6d-fd4b5e85af01&k=87710

Modernism for the Masses - Arizona Republic, 2008.0308
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/home/articles/0308krisel0308.html

Vintage Vibe, Modern Mojo - National Post, 2008.0307
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/homes/story.html?id=360433

Home Building Approvals Ease - FairfaxDigital, 2008.0307
http://business.theage.com.au/home-building-approvals-ease/20080306-1xm0.html

1890s Outside, Loftlike Inside - New York Times, 2008.0228
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/garden/28grove.html?scp=2&sq=architect+AND+design+AND+building&st=nyt

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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.
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