Residential Tuesday 2008.0916

Tue Sep 16 09:35:26 PDT 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

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

If this commentary indeed names the right stage of grief... 
we probably do have quite a way to go.  Buckle up.

	How can it even be possible that we wake up on a Monday
	morning to discover that Lehman Brothers, a firm founded in
	1850, a firm that has survived the Great Depression and
	every market trauma before and since, is suddenly bankrupt?
	That Merrill Lynch, the "Thundering Herd," is sold to Bank
	of America the same weekend?

	Just months ago, Lehman assured investors that it had enough
	liquidity to weather the crisis, while Merrill raised some
	$15 billion over the last year to shore up its balance
	sheet. Now they're both as good as gone.

	Last week, it was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that needed a
	government bailout. This week, it looks as though American
	International Group and Washington Mutual will be on the hot
	seat. We have actually reached the point where there are now
	only two independent investment banks left: Goldman Sachs
	and Morgan Stanley. It boggles the mind.

	But it really shouldn't. Because after you get past the
	mind-numbing complexity of the derivatives that are at the
	heart of the current crisis, what's going on is something we
	are all familiar with: denial.

On Wall Street as on Main Street, a Problem of Denial 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/business/16nocera.html

Graphs and interpretation:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/09/16/business/16primer.span.ready.html

Residential Design and Building News
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Home Prices Near Replacement Cost - Asia One, 2008.0915
http://business.asiaone.com/Business/My%2BMoney/Property/Story/A1Story20080915-87779.html

56 Leonard by Herzog & de Meuron - Gothamist, 2008.0915
http://gothamist.com/2008/09/15/56_leonard.php

New Home Building Falls to Year Low - News.com.au, 2008.0915
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,24347354-31037,00.html

A Look at Historic Galveston Buildings - Houston Chronicle, 2008.0915
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6003355.html

New Home Sales Drop by More Than Half - Central Valley Business Times, 2008.0915
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=9817

Low-Cost Housing Design: How FAR Is Feasible? - Jakarta Post, 2008.0915
http://old.thejakartapost.com/detailcity.asp?fileid=20080915.C01&irec=0

Code Change Would Address Bad Design - West Seattle Herald, 2008.0915
http://www.westseattleherald.com/articles/2008/09/15/news/local_news/news08.txt

The Architects' Touch: The Stories Behind Five Architect-Designed Home Projects - Downtown Journal, 2008.0915
http://www.downtownjournal.com/index.php?&story=12341&page=65&category=56

Modern Design Takes Form as a Farmhouse - Chicago Tribune, 2008.0914
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/home/chi-farmhousesep14,0,7799015.story

China Housing Following U.S. Path in Some Ways - San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0914
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/14/READ12RLKS.DTL

Design Your Own Affordable Home - Stuff, 2008.0914
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4692226a11.html

Container for Life - World Architecture News, 2008.0914
http://www.firerescue1.com/columnists/Charles-Bailey/articles/428864-Case-Study-Strategic-Use-of-PPV-in-a-Residential-High-Rise-Fire/

A Bit of Bauhaus Outside Boston - Washington Post, 2008.0912
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/12/ST2008091201916.html

Best Landmarks of 2008 Honored by Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times, 2008.0912
http://searchchicago.suntimes.com/homes/1157871,cover12landmarks.article

The Next Little Thing? - New York Times, 2008.0911
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/garden/11tiny.html?_r=1&scp=8&sq=architect+AND+design+AND+building&st=nyt&oref=slogin

Hurricane Ike Prompts Tropical Storm Warning for New Orleans - New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2008.0911
http://www.nola.com/hurricane-ike/index.ssf/2008/09/tropical_storm_warning_extende.html

Hurricane Ike Aims at Houston; Evacuations Called - Bloomberg, 2008.0911
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=ahOZo8NH9e20&refer=us

The Circle of Life - New York Times, 2008.0911
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/garden/11dutch.html

Houses for Victorians - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0910
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0910/culture_1-1.html
	Underlying the almost infinite variety of Victorian
	houses were a few basic structural forms, repeated
	millions of times over by builders following well
	established principles...

House for Sweden - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0910
http://www.archweek.com/2008/0910/index.html
	The 70,000-square-foot (6,500-square-meter) building for
	the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., is set on a
	narrow peninsula at the confluence of Rock Creek and the
	Potomac River. Surrounded by water on three sides, the
	peninsula faces south and commands spectacular views up
	and down the Potomac...

Bamboo Shelter Offers Natural Disaster Relief - Asahi, 2008.0910
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200809100056.html

Palo Alto Housing Plan Has Neighbors Nervous - San Jose Mercury News, 2008.0909
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10422448

People and Places by Nancy Novitski
	SERA Architects in Medford, Oregon - RKT&B in Brooklyn,
	New York - BBG-BBGM in New York, New York - SHW Group
	in Brownsville, Texas - Ervin Lovett & Miller in
	Nocatee, Florida - HGA in Napa, California - HOK and
	Highland Associates in Scranton, Pennsylvania...
        ... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/0910/news_1-1.html

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AMD Releases ATI FirePro V8700 - AMD Press Release, 2008.0911
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Bricsys Releases Bricscad V9 - Bricsys, 2008.0908
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New Technology Gives Boost to Building Planners - Triangle Business Journal, 2008.0905
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	In 1830 the initial grid was laid out for the town of
	Chicago, Illinois, and by 1833 there were 200 houses.
	The population continued to expand and the city was
	mostly built of wood-framed buildings until the Great
	Fire of 1871 gutted Chicago's core. There were 300,000
	people living in Chicago at the time of the fire.

	The rebuilding of Chicago drove a boom and the
	population exploded to two million by 1900. This growth
	created pressure for a taller, denser city. What two
	inventions in 1850 and 1867 allowed for this upward
	growth?
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