ArchWeek Residential 2009.0812

Wed Aug 12 12:40:23 PDT 2009

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

ArchWeek Residential brings you housing news and analysis weekly 
from the editors of ArchitectureWeek.

Small is beautiful, in many ways, especially these days.  But as 
Jonathan Glancey points out in the Guardian this week, too small, 
in the context of low-end UK housing, might simply be inhumane:  

	Idealism in the design of mass housing went out with the triumph
	of neo-liberal economics 30 years ago. People might not get what
	they deserve, but they certainly get what the market thinks
	they'll accept and be able to afford. Parker Morris Standards,
	meanwhile, and the decent common-sense humanity of the likes of
	the erstwhile London county council and council for art and
	industry, are as meaningful today as ancient Sumerian scripts
	buried in desert sands.

No Myxomatosis for 'Rabbit Hutch Britain' - Guardian, 2009.0811
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/11/private-housing-rabbit-hutch-britain?commentpage=1

If the market will bear it (in good times? in bad times?), is that
enough?  Where is the role of ethics in housing design and 
construction?  Is it enough to strictly meet minimum code requirements, 
or do you see a professional responsibility to create something "good"?

Discuss online:
http://www.designcommunity.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30097

Residential Design and Building News
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Homebuilding Still on Hold - Northwest, 2009.0812
http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2009/08/06/r_msjfkaprsyhpn0t3nwwa/index.xml

Toll Brothers Reports Preliminary FY 2009 3rd Qtr Results - Trading Markets, 2009.0812
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock News/2474698/

Fletcher Posts NZ$46 Million Loss after Writedowns - Bloomberg, 2009.0812
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aCtyK4.uDVwk

Why Did Homebuilding Stocks Surge? - Business Week, 2009.0811
http://www.businessweek.com/investing/insights/blog/archives/2009/08/the_surge_for_h.html

First-Time Buyers Driving Changes in New Home Building - Examiner, 2009.0811
http://www.examiner.com/x-612-Residential-Real-Estate-Examiner~y2009m8d11-Firsttime-buyers-driving-changes-in-new-home-building

New Homes Are Too Small, Finds Cabe Survey - Building (UK), 2009.0811
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3146650&c=0

Home Sweet Home - The Australian, 2009.0811
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,25914644-5018055,00.html

The Incredible Shrinking Home - CNN, 2009.0811
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/07/real_estate/shrinking_home/?postversion=2009081112

Homebuilders Are Back at It -- Should We Be Worried? - Time, 2009.0811
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1915649,00.html

10 Things Home Builders Won't Tell You - Smart Money, 2009.0811
http://www.smartmoney.com/Spending/For-the-Home/10-Things-Your-Home-Builder-Wont-Tell-You/

NAHB Claims Law Could Stall Housing Rally - Tennessean, 2009.0810
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090810/BUSINESS01/908100319/1003/NEWS01/Builders+fear+energy+law+could+stall+housing+rally

The Self-Destructive Notion of Stopping New Home Building - Mantec Bulletin, 2009.0810
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/news/article/6022/

A Magnificent Living Machine - Brisbane Times, 2009.0809
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/a-magnificent-living-machine-20090806-eb9e.html

Housing Rebound May Stall on Climate Law, GE, U.S. Builders Say - Bloomberg, 2009.0807
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=agFVRbmJAUGk

Architect's Vision of Home - Globe and Mail, 2009.0807
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/architects-vision-of-home/article1243747/

Understanding Feng Shui: Qi by Visiting Yin Yu Tang House - Wicked Local, 2009.0806
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1551840013/Understanding-feng-shui-qi-by-visiting-Yin-Yu-Tang-House

'Space to Space' - Pasadena Weekly, 2009.0806
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/cms/story/detail/space_to_space/7576/

How Was the Queen Anne Style Interpreted in San Francisco? - Examiner, 2009.0806
http://www.examiner.com/x-14251-SF-Architecture--Design-Examiner~y2009m8d6-Architecture--Design-101--How-was-the-Queen-Anne-style-interpreted-in-San-Francisco

A Renovation in Paris - New York Times, 2009.0805
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/greathomesanddestinations/05gh-paris.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=architect+AND+design+AND+building&st=nyt

Owens Corning Q2 Profit Tops Street - Reuters, 2009.0805
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSBNG8237420090805

Builders' Bottom? - Forbes, 2009.0805
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/05/home-builders-preview-markets-equities-beazer.html

Home Builder D.R. Horton Reports Smaller Loss - Market Watch, 2009.0804
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dr-hortons-loss-narrows-on-smaller-write-offs-2009-08-04

Slow Home: Thoughtful Residential Design as Antidote to Suburban Sprawl - Good Ideas Salons, 2009.0803
http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/slow-home-thoughtful-residential-design-as-antidote-to-suburban-sprawl.html

Mid-Century House Endangered in Durham, North Carolina - dBusiness News, 2009.0803
http://real-estate.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?type_news=latest&newsid=187906

Seattle Lofts - ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0729
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0729/design_1-1.html
	At the edge of the Pike Street and Pine Street corridor in
	downtown Seattle is a public transit-oriented neighborhood
	populated by mixed-use developments. The 40-by-80-foot
	(12.2-by-24.4-meter) site for the 1310 E. Union Lofts was an
	infill (midblock) plot, smaller than a typical single-family
	residential lot in Seattle.

Harmonized Sales Tax Will Raise Prices, Home Builders Say - Vancouver Sun, 2009.0728
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Harmonized+sales+will+raise+prices+home+builders/1835825/story.html

People and Places by Nancy Novitski
    http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2009/0805/news_1-1.html
	Dreyfuss & Blackford Architects in Folsom, California - Rice
	University in Houston, Texas - Cannon Design in Los Angeles,
	California - Margulies Perruzzi Architects in Shrewsbury,
	Massachusetts - Charles Gwathmey in New York, New York - Race
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