Residential Tuesday 2008.0812

Tue Aug 12 16:24:01 PDT 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis weekly
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There's an upside to the downslide, for those who can make use of it...

	The U.S. housing market crash has hit the North American
	forest products sector with the price of some wood products
	falling to a 17-year low, the U.N. Economic Commission for
	Europe (UNECE) said on Monday.

	Chinese demand for raw materials is providing some support
	to producers, but Chinese processors are increasingly
	present as competitors for finished products, it said in its
	Forest Products Annual Market Review.

	The UNECE, which covers North America, Europe and the former
	Soviet Union, said prices for some products such as sawn
	wood had fallen in North America to their lowest levels
	since 1991. Wood product prices have fallen so far this year
	in Europe as markets weakened after rising in 2007, it said.

	The U.S. housing market is expected to bottom out this year
	and start to recover slowly in 2009, it said, noting the
	construction crisis had led to the lowest North American
	building material prices in decades...

U.S. Housing Crash Hits Forest Products Sector: U.N. - Reuters, 2008.0811
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLB17387320080811

Residential Design and Building News
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Profits Warning as House Sales Slump - Dispatch (South Africa), 2008.0812
http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=235520

Capital Region Bucks National Trend, Housing Starts Rise - Ottawa Citizen, 2008.0812
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/bustech/story.html?id=7ba835d6-92cb-4425-af5b-afa8cfd66471

Canada's Housing Market Cools in Face of Sharply Slower Economic Growth - Canadian Press, 2008.0811
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5igQsG992nRcGeYwQsQl4S5SR-xeg

Home-Building Workshop Revives Old Building Method - Winnipeg Free Press, 2008.0811
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/local/story/4210933p-4803603c.html

San Antonio Just Keeps on Sprawling - My San Antonio, 2008.0810
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/environment/sa_just_keeps_on_sprawling100.html

Los Angeles House Is a Mix of Spanish and Modern Styles - Sarasota Herald Tribune, 2008.0809
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080809/ARTICLE/808090307/-1/newssitemap

Sexing Up the Suburbs - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0809
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/09/homes.architecture

To Hell and Home Again - Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.0809
http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/to-hell-and-home-again/2008/08/09/1218139161609.html

Urban Sprawl Drives Up the Cost of Living - Denver Post, 2008.0808
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_10132477

Reaction to Talks, New Garage Design: N-O - Oregonian, 2008.0807
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/portland_news/1217469307126900.xml&coll=7

Canada June Building Permits Fall 5.3%, Most Since November - Bloomberg, 2008.0807
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=ajlFPjN1NBoE&refer=canada

U.S. Consumer Debt Spikes in June - Forbes, 2008.0807
http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/08/07/july-retail-update-markets-econ_md_0807markets34.html

Nouveau-Riche Exhibitionism on Cape Cod - Providence Journal, 2008.0804
http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_morgan4_08-04-08_1SB114U_v22.4117926.html

Everything Is Illuminated - Boston Globe, 2008.0803
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/house/articles/2008/08/03/everything_is_illuminated/

200-Yr-Home Project Kicks Off - Daily Yomiuri, 2008.0802
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20080802TDY04301.htm

Woof! Give Pup a Planted Roof - Philly.com, 2008.0801
http://www.philly.com/philly/home/20080801_The_greenest_of_doghouses_.html

When Formica Was Fab - Houston Chronicle, 2008.0801
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/gray/5918346.html

The Macdonalds Had a Barn, but No Farmhouse - Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 2008.0801
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/homegarden/26147709.html?location_refer=lifestyle

Renting Frank Sinatra's House - Time, 2008.0731
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1828419,00.html

1893 Farmhouse Restored - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 2008.0731
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=778586

People and Places
    by Nancy Novitski
	Meeks + Partners in Port Aransas, Texas - A-cero in La
	Romana, Dominican Republic - Leo A Daly in Dallas, Texas -
	HOK in Chicago, Illinois - Race Cottam Associates in Derby,
	England, United Kingdom - Smith Consulting Architects in
	Sacramento, California - Hollis + Miller Architects in
	Kansas City, Missouri - Ellerbe Becket and NAC Architecture
	in Bellevue, Washington...
        ... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/0806/news_1-1.html

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	for BCBS "Green" headquarters.
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Product News - Fine Art as Hardware
	Martin Pierce Inc. designs and manufactures original art
	hardware. They offer a complete range of decorative door and
	cabinet hardware which is cast in silicon bronze or
	stainless steel using the lost wax method of casting. There
	are five styles. All are organic, but the styles vary from
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Bentley Licenses Luxology Rendering Engine for MicroStation - Bentley Press Release, 2008.0812
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Autostereoscopic Display Makes SIGGRAPH Debut - Calibre, 2008.0807
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Punch Releases ViaCAD 2D/3D V6 for Mac, PC - TenLinks, 2008.0805
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	The architect of Chicago's Marshall Field Store also did
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	church. Which of those two buildings was built first?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0806/quiz.html

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	If your 6'-6"- (198-centimeter-) tall client had a
	limited amount of space, what is the smallest size
	mirror you could have installed that would reflect his
	full-height image?
     http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0806/answer.html

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