Residential Tuesday 2008.0610

Tue Jun 10 17:24:48 PDT 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis weekly
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With summer arriving acroos the U.S., an image comes to mind of the 
old swimming hole, submerging down into the cool dark water, reaching
downward, toes wiggling, seeking for the soft silty firmness of the 
hidden riverbed...

	The number of Americans signing contracts to buy existing
	homes unexpectedly rose as the first national drop in prices
	since the 1930s lured buyers back into the market in the
	West, Midwest and South.

	The index of pending home resales jumped 6.3 percent in
	April, the most since 2001, after a 1 percent drop in March,
	the National Association of Realtors said today in
	Washington. The March reading was the lowest level since the
	NAR started keeping records eight years ago.

	The figures may be a sign that the glut of 5 million unsold
	properties may be on the way down, which economists say is a
	prerequisite for stabilization in the industry. Federal
	Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke warned last week that the
	economy will remain in danger of weakening further until
	housing reaches a bottom.

Pending Home Resales Unexpectedly Rose - Bloomberg, 2008.0609
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aAaGXLyHzuik&refer=home

Residential Design and Building News
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'Acceptable Risks' - Best of New Orleans, 2008.0610
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2008-06-10/news_feat3.php

Housing Crunch, 90210 - CNN, 2008.0610
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/10/real_estate/housing_crisis_hits_high_end/?postversion=2008061004

All the Wild Beauty of Scotland, but with Home Comforts - Telegraph, 2008.0610
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/06/10/pnewcrofts110.xml

Fed Hammers Home Message Against Inflation - Reuters, 2008.0610
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1033728720080610

NY Judge: Likely Too Late to Switch Historic House - AP, 2008.0609
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwcfsW6gDOJwZrmgUZ0OO0yeFTyAD916Q9T80

Homebuilding Ahead of Last Year - Canada Mortgage and Housing
Corporation Press Release, 2008.0609
http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=866045

Residents Worry about "McMansions" - News 14, 2008.0609
http://news14.com/content/headlines/596353/residents-worry-about--mcmansions-/Default.aspx

 From the Ground Up - Baltimore Sun, 2008.0608
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/realestate/bal-re.custom08jun08,0,38310.story

No End in Sight to US Bank Woes as Autumn Sales Flop - The Australian, 2008.0607
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23821669-36375,00.html

Little Skyscraper on the Prarie - The Atlantic, 2008.0606
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/price-tower

Warning on House Building Targets - BBC, 2008.0606
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7440898.stm

Self-Build Begins at Seventy... - Telegraph, 2008.0606
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2008/06/07/pselfbuild107.xml

Home Builders Offer Big Discounts - New Zealand Herald, 2008.0605
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10514471

Home Builders Face Off with Foreclosures - Reuters, 2008.0604
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0337373120080604

Contractors Consider Ways to Make Cranes Safer - New York Times, 2008.0604
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/nyregion/04crane.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Reconstruction of Infrastructure Priority in Quake-Hit Areas - Xinhua, 2008.0604
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/04/content_8308063.htm

Peace in a Pod - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0601
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/jun/01/lakedistrict.camping

Woman Found Living in Closet - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0531
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/31/japan

Suburban Myths - Fairfax Digital, 2008.0527
http://smallbusiness.smh.com.au/managing/sales/suburban-myths-909332799.html

People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
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	Architecture and Planning in New York, New York - Olson
	Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects in Seattle, Washington
	- Frank Gehry in New York, New York - Polshek
	Partnership Architects and GSBS Architects in Salt Lake
	City, Utah...
        ... short stories continue online:
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San Diego City Center 3D City Model Lands on Google Earth - CyberCity 3D Press Release, 2008.0605
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	Place the following Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in
	chronological order from oldest to newest.
	A. William H. Winslow House, River Forest, Illinois.
	B. Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan.
	C. Robie Residence, Chicago, Illinois.
	D. Larkin Building, Buffalo, New York.
	E. Unity Church, Oak Park, Illinois.
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0604/quiz.html

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	A cyclorama is a large, curved, seamless, white or pale
	blue backdrop used in theater design to represent the
	sky or to provide a surface on which abstract colors and
	patterns can be projected from stage lighting fixtures.
	Cycloramas are typically made from either cloth or
	plaster. Which of these materials is usually better for
	this application?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0604/answer.html

Classic Home 030 - Shed Dormer Colonial by Whitman S. Wick
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