Residential Tuesday 2008.0401

Wed Apr 2 11:53:12 PDT 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

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This week in ArchitectureWeek we're covering the American Institute of 
Architecture Housing Design Awards for 2008:

   http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0326/index.html

And there's at least one thing we seem to be unified on across the pond...

	Annual house price growth stalled during March as prices
	fell for the sixth month in a row, figures showed.

	The average cost of a home in England and Wales has
	increased by just 0.4% during the past year to average
	£174,100, according to property information group Hometrack.

	Prices continued their downward trend in March, falling by
	0.2% during the month, with 29% postcode districts seeing a
	reduction in house prices.

	The survey comes days after Nationwide Building Society said
	house prices fell for the fifth month in a row in March,
	dropping by 0.6%, while annual house price growth eased to
	just 1.1%, its slowest rate for 12 years....

House Prices Fall for Sixth Month - The Press Association, 2008.0331
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBqILECJdCy5k2bUnjzhJ1AM8hOA

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Residential Design and Building News
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Japan Housing Starts Declined 5% in February - MarketWatch, 2008.0331
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/japan-housing-starts-declined-5/story.aspx?guid=%7BEA35664C-DF94-45D4-B429-9E67BA680CF3%7D

New Zealand's February Home-Building Approvals Decline 6.5% - Bloomberg, 2008.0331
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a1wTb1HjHaJs&refer=australia

Kansas House Approves Bill Delaying Taxes on Unsold New Homes - Prime Buzz, 2008.0331
http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/10752

Home Sales Down before Interest Rate Hike - Herald Sun (Australia), 2008.0331
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23459316-664,00.html

Jean Nouvel Is Awarded the 2008 Pritzker Architecture Prize - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0331
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-et-pritzker31mar31,1,555328.story?track=rss

Architects Adapt to Slump in New Housing - Delaware News Journal, 2008.0331
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080331/BUSINESS/803310313/1003

Livingstone Launches 18-Point London Housing Manifesto - 24Dash, 2008.0331
http://www.24dash.com/news/Housing/2008-03-31-Livingstone-launches-18-point-London-housing-manifesto

Housing Decline Hits Construction - BBC News, 2008.0331
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7323589.stm

What’S Working - Family Housing - Regenerate Live, 2008.0330
http://www.regeneratelive.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=709&storycode=3109539&c=1&encCode=000000000148a68a

That 6% Is Getting Harder to Earn - New York Times, 2008.0330
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/realestate/30cov.html?_r=1&ref=realestate&oref=slogin

Staying Put, in a Mobile Home - New York Times, 2008.0330
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/realestate/30wczo.html?ref=realestate

McMansions Getting Downsized - Daily Herald, 2008.0329
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=162019

Property Development: Time Moves Slowly in the Planning World - Telegraph, 2008.0329
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/03/29/pkelly129.xml

The McBacklash - The Journal Times, 2008.0328
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2008/03/28/life/doc47ec48b8ee343639795335.txt

AIA Housing Awards 2008 - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0326
http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0326/index.html
	Urban Infill 02 is a prototype for affordable single-family
	housing designed by Johnsen Schmaling Architects for a small
	urban lot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Two interlocking modular
	forms compose the house: a two-story wood-clad cube and a
	bar-shaped, single-story concrete block.

	It's among the 19 housing projects recognized by the
	American Institute of Architects (AIA) in its annual housing
	awards. The 2008 honorees range from a barnlike home on Long
	Island to a bright multifamily building in West Hollywood.

International Practice - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0326
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/culture_1-1.html
	International practice sounds glamorous and fun, but is it
	something that your firm should consider?

	Overseas work can be expensive, disruptive, and a serious
	distraction. Some firms have even destroyed their domestic
	practice by diverting too much energy and too many resources
	to foreign work.

Building Dorm Rooms Cheaper, Quicker and Quieter - New York Times, 2008.0326
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/business/26college.html?scp=2&sq=construction&st=nyt

Tables Turn Quickly on Chinese Developers - Wall Street Journal, 2008.0326
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120646647636062803.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

OMA to Redevelop Modernist London Icon - Europe Real Estate, 2008.0325
http://www.europe-re.com/system/main.php?pageid=2616&articleid=10902

Soul Ties to the Past - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2008.0324
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/ae/356235_architecture25.html?source=rss

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	glass. These surfaces are numbered in the following
	order: the exterior face is called surface 1; the
	internal face of the exterior glass is surface 2;
	surface 3 is the internal face of the interior glass;
	and the interior glass face exposed to the room is
	surface 4. For which surface would you specify the low-E
	coating and why?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0326/answer.html

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