Residential Tuesday 2008.0930

Wed Oct 1 12:49:32 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.

	U.S. homebuilders, buffeted by at least $19 billion in
	losses since 2006, plan to ask Congress to help stop the
	bleeding. The industry will ask lawmakers to pass a $15,000
	tax credit for all homebuyers, replacing a smaller incentive
	enacted earlier this year that they contend failed to
	stimulate demand.

	"Our members are really hurting," Jerry Howard, the chief
	executive officer of the National Association of Home
	Builders, said in an interview. "The tax credit passed in
	July seems to have failed to have sparked interest. We are
	hearing from high volume and small volume builders that it
	has had no impact."

	The top 14 homebuilders have seen their market value plunge
	69 percent to $27 billion since July 2005, the all-time high
	for a Standard & Poor's measure of largest home construction
	companies. The NAHB estimates new single-family home sales
	will fall 33 percent this year from 2007 and climb 5 percent
	in 2009 from 2008.

'Hurting' Builders Seek New Tax Credit to Help Market - Bloomberg, 2008.0929
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601213&sid=aOACx30SXenQ&refer=home

Residential Design and Building News
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Big Plan A Fails, so What's B as U.S. House Takes a Holiday? - The Australian, 2008.1001
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24427776-5013565,00.html

House Builders Come in from the Cold - Edmonton Journal, 2008.0930
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/business/story.html?id=f2bb87f9-782a-4331-868c-470008f42368

Construction Profits Expected to Fall - Victoria Times Colonist, 2008.0930
http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/business/story.html?id=5970a0ba-38b0-43f6-9d2c-bf380522f9d6

Australia's Home-Building Approvals Declined 3.7% - Bloomberg, 2008.0930
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aKamHMMHftO8&refer=australia

Home Building Slumps Further in August - New Zealand Herald, 2008.0930
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10534968

Lenders Withdraw Mortgage Deals - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0930
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/sep/30/mortgages.property

Governor Signs Green Home Building Legislation - MidHudson News, 2008.0929
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/September08/29/green_build_law-29Sep08.html

East Dallas Landmark Finds New Owners and Regains Lost Grandeur - Dallas Morning News, 2008.0929
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/home/hometours/stories/DN-fdluxe_hometour_1007fas.State.Edition1.460c744.html

Can't Move? Then Improve - Easier Property, 2008.0929
http://www.easier.com/view/UK_Property_News/General/article-206837.html

Carving Out a Family Home and a Studio - New York Times, 2008.0928
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/realestate/28habi.html

Scaling Back in Suburbia - New York Times, 2008.0928
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/realestate/28njzo.html

A Loan Fit for the Countryside - New York Times, 2008.0928
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/realestate/28mort.html

New Georgia Development Suggests a Frontier-Style Mountain Town - Cattanooga Times Free Press, 2008.0928
http://timesfreepress.com/news/2008/sep/28/new-georgia-development-suggests-frontier-style-mo/

KB Home Building Smaller Houses to Lift Sagging Sales - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0927
http://www.latimes.com/business/investing/la-fi-kbhome27-2008sep27,0,810745.story

Milton Faces Lawsuit over Demolition of Home in Historic District - Cape Gazette, 2008.0926
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/200809/milnlawsuit092608.html

U.K. House Builders Not Inflating Prices - International Herald Tribune, 2008.0926
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/09/25/business/OUKBS-UK-HOUSEBUILDERS-BRITAIN.php

Peace-of-Mind Punch List - Market Watch, 2008.0925
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ten-punch-list-items-assess-soundness/story.aspx?guid=C983C02C-794D-451F-9036-94A22EC34416

In the Penthouse, a True Garden Apartment - New York Times, 2008.0925
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/garden/25roof.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=building+AND+construction+AND+architecture&st=nyt&oref=slogin

Applications and Identity Theft - New York Times, 2008.0925
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/garden/25fix.html

Shower Design for Aging in Place - ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2008/0924/building_1-1.html
	Customarily, architects, builders, and contractors have
	designed, specified, and built curbs at shower entrances
	that require users to pick up their feet and step over
	and into the shower pan. In some cases, the floor of the
	shower pan is lower than the floor of the bathroom.

Construction Workers Sue Building Materials Holding Corp. - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0924
http://www.latimes.com/business/careers/work/la-fi-homesuit24-2008sep24,0,4543994.story

U.K. House Builders to Be Regulated by Code of Conduct - Independent Digital, 2008.0924
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/house-builders-to-be-regulated-by-code-of-conduct-941371.html

Drew Wilgus Wins Design Your Dwelling Competition - Davidson News, 2008.0924
http://davidsonnews.net/2008/09/24/davidson-native-wins-home-design-competition/

The Rise - and Fall - of the Bungalow - Independent Digital, 2008.0924
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/property/the-rise-ndash-and-fall-ndash-of-the-bungalow-939851.html

People and Places by Nancy Novitski
	Thornton Tomasetti in Chicago, Illinois - Leo A Daly in
	Los Angeles, California - KMD Architects in Winchester,
	Virginia - Creative Resource Associates and Group 70
	International in Honolulu, Hawaii - Foster + Partners
	in Buenos Aires, Argentina - Hardy McCullah/ MLM
	Architects in Fort Worth, Texas - Stephen A. Kliment in
	Ebersberg, Germany - Perkins + Will in Los Angeles,
	California...
        ... short stories continue online:
        http://www.ArchWeek.com/2008/0924/news_1-1.html

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Running Servers in a Tent Outside: It Works - Computer World, 2008.0925
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Dassault Systemes Launches "Green" Global Headquarters - Dassault Press Release, 2008.0924
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AIA Announces the Release of Six New Documents - AIA Press Release, 2008.0924
http://www.aia.org/release_092408_condocs

Bentley Opens 2009 Student Design Awards Competition - Bentley Press Release, 2008.0924
http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+3/2009+Student+Competition.htm

Autodesk Sues SolidWorks - WorldCAD Access, 2008.0923
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