Residential Tuesday 2008.0429

Wed Apr 30 04:19:22 PDT 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis weekly
in this free email newsletter from the editors of ArchitectureWeek.

There's more than one way to get things done.  And sometimes how
we're doing things is worth another look.  Here, another look was
taken for a new deveopment in Wales...

	Fewer new houses are being built in Wales than at any
	time since World War II, according to the Home Builders
	Federation.

	But on Anglesey an unusual housing development is shaping
	up that may provide a solution - and it's timber-framed.

	Dan-wood, originally a Danish company, has been building
	timber-framed houses all over northern Europe for 45
	years. But the concept is new to Wales, where 99% of
	housing is bricks and mortar.

Wood Homes 'Solution' to Shortage - BBC News, 2008.0423
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7361434.stm

Residential Design and Building News
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U.S. Foreclosure Filings Double in First Quarter, Led by Nevada - Bloomberg, 2008.0429
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=acare3gwtAdI&refer=home

GMAC Posts $589 Million Loss on Home Lending Woes - Bloomberg, 2008.0429
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=acDDgMZK2BfM&refer=home

Countrywide Posts $893 Mln Loss as Bad Loans Soar - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0429
http://www.guardian.co.uk/feedarticle?id=7491516

Fla. Real Estate Agent Offers Foreclosure Tours - NPR, 2008.0429
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90024860

Tornadoes Injure 200+ in Suffolk (Va.) Area - Newsday, 2008.0429
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ustornado0430,0,5827338.story

Rising Material Costs Push Up Prices in the Housing Sector - The Hindu, 2008.0429
http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/29/stories/2008042956411000.htm

Interest Rates Slow Tasmanian Housing Market - ABC News (Australia), 2008.0429
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/29/2229907.htm?section=business

Business Confidence Down Again - ABN Newswire, 2008.0429
http://www.abnnewswire.net/press/en/50998/Business_Confidence_Down_Again.html

Low Home-Building Will Maintain Prices - The Australian, 2008.0428
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23609509-12377,00.html

RPT-UK's Nationwide Ups Minimum Deposit for Home Loans - Reuters, 2008.0428
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSL2844129420080428

In an Accident, Some Fear a Real Estate Opportunity - New York Times, 2008.0428
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/nyregion/28bigcity.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

He's Done Heathrow and the Dome but Home's the Best - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0428
http://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.2230926.0.hes_done_heathrow_and_the_dome_but_homes_the_best.php

Affordable Housing - Las Vegas Review Journal, 2008.0428
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/18326424.html

Forget the Teardown, the "Unbuild" Is Eco-Friendly but More Costly - Wall Street Journal, 2008.0428
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120913845018445209.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

California Works to Contain Blaze Near Los Angeles - Bloomberg, 2008.0428
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=awANQxexE5uE&refer=us

Building Your Own Home a "Daunting" Task - Quad-City Times, 2008.0428
http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/04/28/features/home_garden/doc481224c7d4c27554073217.txt

Britons Run Scared of Banks and Stash Their Cash at Home - Independent Digital, 2008.0427
http://www.independent.co.uk/money/loans-credit/britons-run-scared-of-banks-and-stash-their-cash-at-home-816064.html

Owners Stuck with Flawed Homes - Houston Chronicle, 2008.0427
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5733457.html

Modernism Gains Cachet - Chicago Tribune, 2008.0427
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-re-modernism-architecture-04apr27,0,1555968.story

Tackling Climate Change - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0423
http://www.architectureweek.com/2008/0423/index.html
	Just about a year ago, Al Gore rocked the national AIA
	Convention in San Antonio with a climactic final keynote
	address, and received a prolonged standing ovation from
	thousands of architects who had lined up for hours to get
	in.
	Gore expressed the compelling case on global climate
	change, anchoring the powerful presentation with this
	silver spur to action for design professionals:
	  Never before in the history of our species has the
	  opportunity and responsibility to decisively affect the
	  continuation of life as we know it lain in the hands of a
	  single profession, as it does today with architects.

Housing: The Age-Old Problem - Contract Journal, 2008.0423
http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2008/04/23/58723/housing-the-age-old-problem.html

Wood Homes 'Solution' to Shortage - BBC News, 2008.0423
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7361434.stm

The Hurricane-Ready Home: PM's 2008 House of the Year - Popular Mechanics, 2008.0422
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/home_improvement/4255336.html

People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/news_2-1.html

	Ellerbe Becket in Lima, Ohio - PSA-Dewberry in Chicago,
	Illinois - Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design LLC in
	Las Vegas, Nevada - RTKL Associates Inc. in Dallas,
	Texas - NBBJ in Seattle, Washington - Snohetta in
	Oslo, Norway - Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build in Hemet,
	California - SmithGroup in Ann Arbor, Michigan - TPG
	Architecture in New York, New York - HOK in Los
	Angeles, California - Diamond and Schmitt Architects in
	Toronto, Canada - Foster + Partners with Gruen
	Associates in Camarillo, California - Spacesmith in New
	York, New York...
        ... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/0423/news_2-1.html

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Inside the Apple/PA Semi Deal: Micro and Macro Perspectives ― Seeking Alpha, 2008.0429
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Stark Warning for Internet's Future -- BBC News, 2008.0424
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7364901.stm

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This Week's Quiz -	
	True or false:
	A.	The pagoda and pailou (memorial arch) now
		associated with Chinese architecture were originally
		introduced to China from Japan.
	B.	The finest remaining examples of elegantly
		bracketed wood temples in the Tang style (China,
		618-907) are found outside of China.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/quiz.html

Architecture Answer - for last issue's quiz...
	If you broke a sheet of tempered glass, you would have a
	pile of small pieces of relatively harmless glass.  What
	is the minimum number of pieces per square inch (or per
	square centimeter) of glass that you would expect to
	have?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0423/answer.html

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