ArchWeek Residential 2008.1111
ArchitectureWeek Editors
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Tue Nov 11 15:15:10 PST 2008
Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,
ArchWeek Residential brings you housing news and analysis weekly
from the editors of ArchitectureWeek.
It's a lot more challenging to build urbane, multistory, mixed-use
commercial/residential structures than detached single-family homes
...right? Most places, it even takes an architect to design them!
It's an aging strip mall: Hair salons, a video poker outlet,
coin laundry, four businesses closed on a Monday morning and
a series of empty storefronts with "For Lease" signs in the
windows. Fourteen lonely cars dot the vast parking lot.
Urban planner Arthur "Chris" Nelson would survey the scene
and proclaim it a "new Promised Land."
Nelson - a University of Utah professor who grew up in the
Portland area - is dead serious. Dried-up commercial
centers, or at least the space they occupy, offer a national
rebuilding opportunity that Nelson believes could
accommodate two-thirds of the nation's population growth
projected for 2040 and 75 percent of the job growth.
Tired Strip Malls Present Opportunities to Reshape the Landscape
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2008/11/tired_strip_malls_present_oppo.html
Discuss onlne:
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Residential Design and Building News
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U.S. Offers Plan to Modify Home Loans - New York Times, 2008.1111
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/business/12mortgage.html
A Town Drowns in Debt as Home Values Plunge - New York Times, 2008.1111
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/business/11home.html
National Broom to Sweep into Housing - New Zealand Herald, 2008.1112
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=10542467
Massive Norfolk Home-Building Plan Revealed - EDP24, 2008.1111
http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED10 Nov 2008 20%3A33%3A32%3A840
U.K. Home Sales Lowest Since at Least 1978, RICS Says - Bloomberg, 2008.1111
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=arfvxwIPAzBI&refer=uk
Toll Brothers 4Q Home-Building Revenue Declines - Associated Press, 2008.1111
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iQpTREFNFK03op0nST67PtQcSaLAD94CQD882
Home Sales Plummet to New Low as Nationwide Says Lending Has Dropped 70% - The Times (UK), 2008.1111
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/property_and_mortgages/article5126997.ece
Energy Efficiency Drives Home Building - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2008.1109
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/business/stories/2008/11/09/hybridhome.html
Moen Earns International Design Excellence Award - Moen Press Release, 2008.1107
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Moen-Earns-International-Design-Excellence/story.aspx?guid={5B4779CC-63A3-499B-8E2D-81C398F5C5BE}
AIA: Homes Focusing on Energy, Accessibility - Kitchen & Bath Design News, 2008.1107
http://www.kitchenbathdesign.com/print/Kitchen-and-Bath-Design-News/AIA--Homes-Focusing-on-Energy--Accessibility/2$5074
Home Sweet Shipping Container? - ABC News, 2008.1107
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/SmartHome/story?id=6201752&page=1
Lego Project Turns into Dream Home for Mequon Family - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 2008.1107
http://www.jsonline.com/features/homeandgarden/33784479.html
Deteriorating Home Market Puts GMAC Unit at Risk - New York Times, 2008.1106
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/business/06gmac.html
Economy, Ike Hammer Houston Home Builders - Houston Chronicle, 2008.1106
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6097741.html
A Fixer-Upper to End Them All - New York Times, 2008.1106
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/garden/06white.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=building+AND+construction+AND+architecture&st=nyt&oref=slogin
Builders 'Ecstatic' over Arizona 'Lemon Law' Defeat - CNN, 2008.1105
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811051521DOWJONESDJONLINE000921_FORTUNE5.htm
Fewer Cluster Homes May Be Built - AsiaOne, 2008.1105
http://business.asiaone.com/Business/My%2BMoney/Property/Story/A1Story20081105-98531.html
U.K. Home Builders Demand 1% Interest Rate Cut - LocalGov, 2008.1104
http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?method=news.detail&id=72878
Indian Builders Lure Home Buyers with Free Cars, Gold - Associated Foreign Press, 2008.1103
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jmZUaj3YCKLuyaC2Le2a_d3W7jOQ
Construction Spending Falls Less Than Expected - Associated Press, 2008.1103
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i7xniREXDyVW9dEoKKGodh-X7VeAD947HR9O1
Building Insurer Absorbed by Parent - Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.1103
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/building-insurer-absorbed-by-parent/2008/11/03/1225560738035.html
Building Confidence in Homes Market - Edinburgh Evening News, 2008.1103
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/comment/-Building-confidence-in-homes.4653551.jp
Feeling the Wall Street Pinch at Home - New York Times, 2008.1102
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/nyregion/westchester/02streetwe.html?scp=4&sq=architect+AND+design+AND+building&st=nyt
Despite Grand Plans, Prefabrication Still Hasn't Realized Economies of Scale - Washington Post, 2008.1031
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/31/AR2008103101638.html
Weyerhaeuser 3Q Net Soars on Divestitures; Home Operations Weak - CNN, 2008.1031
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200810310916DOWJONESDJONLINE000576_FORTUNE5.htm
Australian Newly Built Home Sales Fall Accelerated in September - Bloomberg, 2008.1031
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aQSiHQm1sOJw&refer=home
U.K. Home-Building Halved by Crunch - Financial Times, 2008.1031
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/483332f2-a76a-11dd-865e-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
People and Places by Nancy Novitski
Gary Shoemaker Architects in New York, New York - FARO
Architecten in Amsterdam, Netherlands - L2M in
Baltimore, Maryland - Kyu Sung Woo Architects in
Cambridge, Massachusetts - BNIM in Greensburg, Kansas
- Perkins Eastman in Boston, Massachusetts...
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