Residential Tuesday 2008.0805
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Tue Aug 5 22:41:30 PDT 2008
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Where a failed urban housing project once stood, enclosed
and separated from its surrounding neighborhood in San
Francisco's Mission District, the mixed-use Valencia Gardens
development now supports an integrated neighborhood designed
to promote safety through activity.
Architect Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP, with associate
architect Martinez Architects, Inc., lined the sidewalk with
building entries and reintroduced vehicular streets into the
site, connecting it with the urban fabric...
AIA/HUD Secretary Awards - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0730
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0730/news_1-1.html
Residential Design and Building News
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Gloom over Service Sector Fuels Fears of Recession - The Times (UK), 2008.0805
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/construction_and_property/article4460954.ece
Fannie's Mudd Soothed Asian Investors as Bonds Rose - Bloomberg, 2008.0804
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=azswcZQvmUX0&refer=home
Subprime Crisis Was the Tip of the Iceberg - InjuryBoard.com, 2008.0804
http://losangeles.injuryboard.com/miscellaneous/subprime-crisis-was-the-tip-of-the-iceberg.aspx?googleid=245078
The Credit Crunch of of 2007/2008 - Reuters, 2008.0804
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc06/idUSL155564520080804
Yes, That's $2 Trillion of Debt-Related Losses - Barron's, 2008.0804
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB121763156934206007.html?mod=googlenews_barrons
Feds Accuse Bank Insider of Massive Data Heist - The Register, 2008.0804
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/04/countrywide_data_heist/
Most Subprime Loans Didn't Go to Low-Income Borrowers - Phoenix Business Journal, 2008.0804
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2008/08/04/daily7.html
Moody's Sees More Severe Housing Downturn - Reuters, 2008.0804
http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0451695720080804
Sector Wrap: Analyzing the Housing Market - CNN, 2008.0804
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/fbb00b71803405875ea9ce5ef89eff91.htm
California Hints at US Realty Bottom - Economic Times, 2008.0803
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/International_Business/California_hints_at_US_realty_bottom/articleshow/3319797.cms
Designs on Affordable Housing - Boston Globe, 2008.0803
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/08/03/designs_on_affordable_housing/
Developers Add Modern Touches to Affordable Homes - Boston Globe, 2008.0803
http://www.boston.com/realestate/news/articles/2008/08/03/looking_good/
A 1958 Edward Fickett House Retains Its Aura of Contemporary Cool - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0802
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-encino2-2008aug02,0,6262734.story
Countrywide Insider Stole Mortgage Applicants' Data, FBI Says - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0802
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-arrest2-2008aug02,0,7330731.story
Commission: Ban 'Two Hats' Practice in Home Sales - Newsday, 2008.0801
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzmort0801,0,3514577.story
The Urban Aesthetic and Its Sway on Suburbia - Vision, 2008.0801
http://www.visionmagazine.com/archives/0808/feature_suburbia.html
Talk of Suburban Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated - The Globe and Mail, 2008.0801
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080731.reMays0801/BNStory/RealEstate/home?cid=al_gam_mostemail
Mortgage Rates Fell in Week - Wall Street Journal, 2008.0801
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121754748384702575.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
The Subprime Meltdown Will Be Nothing Compared to the Prime Meltdown - Consumerist, 2008.0801
http://consumerist.com/5032912/the-subprime-meltdown-will-be-nothing-compared-to-the-prime-meltdown
Building a Dream House - Boston Globe, 2008.0731
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/house/articles/2008/07/31/building_a_dream_house/
Sweeping Legislation Offers Some Relief for Home, Mortgage Markets - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2008.0731
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08213/900751-28.stm
Famed Architect's Tower to Soar in TriBeCa - New York Sun, 2008.0731
http://www.nysun.com/real-estate/famed-architects-tower-to-soar-in-tribeca/82967/
This Old (Healthy) House - New York Times, 2008.0731
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/this-old-healthy-house/index.html?scp=2&sq=old house&st=cse
Building a House: Modern, Minimalist and Exciting - Victoria Times Colonist, 2008.0730
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=f8267672-1cb3-4ab7-9395-238be4548927
Eero and Onward - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0730
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0730/index.html
On a December day of 1955, fresh over from Paris, I
walked into the small Eero Saarinen office in Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, with a beat-up box of eight-by-tens of
my Beaux-Arts graduation work. "Can I see Mr. Saarinen?
I'm looking for a job." He did see me, and having
reviewed my prints, asked whether I could start that
very afternoon o for $2.75 an hour pay. I did...
What's Lurking in Your Countertop? - New York Times, 2008.0724
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/garden/24granite.html?ex=1374811200&en=9c6dfe790a10e012&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
People and Places
by Nancy Novitski
Omniplan, Mayse & Associates, and Beeler Guest Owens
Architects in Pearland, Texas - Elliott Marshall Innes,
P.A., with Lord, Aeck & Sargent in Tallahassee, Florida -
Cannon Design in Grand Island, New York - SmithGroup in
Washington, D.C., USA - Gresham, Smith and Partners in
Franklin, Tennessee...
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