Residential Tuesday 2009.0616
ArchitectureWeek Editors
editor at architectureweek.com
Tue Jun 16 18:58:32 PDT 2009
Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,
ArchWeek Residential brings you housing news and analysis weekly from the editors of ArchitectureWeek.
Our publishing house, Artifice, Inc., is mostly focused on sharing a combination of mission-critical and culturally-vital information on architecture and the built environment, focused on professionals and the seriously-interested.
On the side, though, it happens that we also run "one of the Internet's leading free speech sites," dedicated since 1999 to free hosting of online petitions. Advocacy of causes, as it turns out, has a rather bigger footprint (even if commercially non-remunerative) than those taking a professional interest in the built environment.
PetitionOnline is a busy site, with millions of unique monthly visitors, top-5000 Quantcast and Compete ratings, and a four-digit Alexa rank that has hit as high as about 1000. At any given time, tens of thousands of petitions are active on the site, and upwards of 30,000 signatures are collected on a typical day.
The ongoing adventure that is PetitionOnline took a dramatic turn last Friday, when the site became inaccessible due to a form of Internet sabotage known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In the ensuing four day struggle to get the site back online, involving help from site users across the country and touching such dimensions as Harvard Law and upper levels of the FBI in Washington, D.C., we of course learned far more about DDoS than we ever wanted to know.
So when housing newsletter time came around, and the all-hands-on-deck crisis was starting to settle down, I became curious about the intersection of online petitions, and residential design and building. Turns out there actually is one, however quixotic, as shown by these Google searches:
"Real Estate" at PetitionOnline (207 results):
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=site:petitiononline.com+%22real+estate%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
"Housing" at PetitionOnline (821 results):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=site%3Apetitiononline.com+%22housing%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Discuss online:
http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28422
Residential Design and Building News
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Homebuilder's Trial Set to Begin - Cincinnati Enquirer, 2009.0615
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090615/BIZ01/906150310/Homebuilder+s+trial+set+to+begin
Home Builders' Sales Expectations Fade Slightly - Market Watch, 2009.0615
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/home-builders-sales-expectations-fade-slightly
Home Builders See a Bottom - Housing Wire, 2009.0615
http://www.housingwire.com/2009/06/15/home-builders-see-a-bottom/
Texas Home Builders Fight Life Safety - Examiner, 2009.0615
http://www.examiner.com/x-8372-Fire-Safety-Examiner~y2009m6d15-Texas-home-builders-fight-life-safety
Libeskind Designs a Prefab Home - New York Times, 2009.0615
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/greathomesanddestinations/12iht-relib.html?hpw
More US Builders Considering 'Green' Certification - PropertyWire, 2009.0614
http://www.propertywire.com/news/north-america/us-builders-green-200906143215.html
Housing May Bottom, but Recession Rolls Along - Market Watch, 2009.0614
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/housing-may-bottom-but-recession-rolls-along
Rogers Loses Chelsea Barracks Job - BD, 2009.0612
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3142693&origin=BDbreakingnews
Home-Building Standards Needed Everywhere - Tennessean, 2009.0611
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090611/OPINION01/906110358/1008/Home-building+standards+needed+everywhere
Dade Mobile Home Building Moratorium Extended, Lawsuits Could Be on the Horizon - Miami Today, 2009.0611
http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/090611/story7.shtml
AIA Housing Awards 2009 - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0610
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0610/index.html
Toward the street, the concrete-block home near Bellevue,
Idaho, presents minimally incised walls. From inside,
the boxy masonry of Outpost opens up to surprisingly
expansive views of the rural Idaho landscape.
Pelli's Platinum Visionaire - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0610
http://www. archweek.com/2009/0610/environment_1-1.html
At first glance, the glossy new 35-story condominium
tower slicing into the lower Manhattan skyline doesn't
stand out as a beacon of sustainable design. Its sleek
form - an extruded curving wedge accented with red
terra cotta bands - looks more Ferrari than Prius.
California New-Home Sales Crash Eases a Bit - Central Valley Business Times, 2009.0610
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=12208
Panel Homes Offer a Building Alternative - 27 East, 2009.0610
http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=214884&town=
Incentives a Respite for Home Builders - Salt Lake Tribune, 2009.0609
http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_12556490
Panel Homes Offer a Building Alternative - 27 East, 2009.0610
http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=214884&town=
Apartment Financing Downturn May Spur Home Sales - Houston Chronicle, 2009.0608
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6465426.html
Janelia Farm to Expand Campus Housing - HHMI Press Release, 2009.0608
http://www.hhmi.org/news/20090608.html
Don't Reduce Your Property Insurance Coverage to Reflect Lower Home Values - Los Angeles Times, 2009.0607
http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/news/la-fi-lew7-2009jun07,0,3514957.story
Housing: New Build - Modern Flat Design Ruled Out of Character - Planning Resources, 2009.0605
http://www.planningresource.co.uk/news/910704/DC-Casebook-Housing-New-Build---Modern-flat-design-ruled-character/
Gregory Ain's Small Houses - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0603
http://www.archweek.com/2009/0603/culture_1-1.html
Gregory Ain's small houses of the 1930s were completed
in a historical context in which the "small house"
emerged as a typology of primary importance to
architects.
Slave Cabins Were Home to Family through '60s - Associated Press, 2009.0603
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gu_yYHy5PmaBGMsaoxMTp_7iDHlgD98J5OO82
Geithner Rents Westchester Home after Failing to Sell - Bloomberg, 2009.0603
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=aJb6RpM.jY.w
Pending Home Sales Better: Time to Buy the Homebuilders? - Inside Futures, 2009.0602
http://www.insidefutures.com/article/104021/Pending%20Home%20Sales%20Better:%20Time%20to%20Buy%20the%20Homebuilders?.html
The (Lost) Glory of Courtyards - International News, 2009.0601
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=180650
Denver Gives Out Free Building Permits - CBS4 Denver, 2009.0601
http://cbs4denver.com/local/Home.Renovation.Bonanza.2.1027246.html
New Home Sales Hit 14-Month High - Sydney Morning Herald, 2009.0601
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-business/new-home-sales-hit-14month-high-20090601-bsgo.html
New Houses Are Being Downsized Too - Arizona Republic, 2009.0529
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/05/29/20090529small-houses0529-ON.html
FHA Policy on Tax Credit More Limited Than Expected - Wall Street Journal, 2009.0529
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090529-712103.html
Sarah Susanka Champions Right-Sizing the Home - Commercial Appeal, 2009.0529
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/may/29/think-small/
People and Places by Nancy Novitski
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0610/news_2-1.html
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Tennessee - Rafael Vinoly Architects in San Francisco,
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