ArchWeek Residential 2009.1012

Tue Oct 13 09:25:49 PDT 2009

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

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

Major demographic trends suggest increasing demand for high-quality
multi-family housing for years to come, while the single-family
house market may not clear its excess inventory until 2013, and
rising costs of transportation will continue to nick outlying areas.

These are tough realities for the classic American homebuilder. 

What would it take for your own work in housing to focus on
desirable multi-family and residential mixed-use redevelopments?

	"Reinventing buildings to meet New York City's changing needs is
	an important part of fitting millions of people into tight
	spaces, while hanging on to a bit of the city's character. Many
	New Yorkers live in converted carriage houses or in factories
	transformed into lofts, for instance.

	"Soon, some will be able to call a former public school home. L+M
	Development Partners is taking a classroom-packed 1906 building
	in Harlem and making it into a mix of market-rate and
	moderate-income apartments.

	"The building, the former Public School 90, on 148th Street
	between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
	Boulevards, has been abandoned since 1978. The fiscal crisis of
	the 1970s shuttered many New York City public schools; P.S. 90
	was done in by low enrollment...

	"As for restoring the structure for use as a public school, "the
	expense to rehab it wasn't justified," said Holly Leicht, the
	deputy commissioner for development at the New York City
	Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

	"So instead the city turned the site over to L+M, which has been
	around since 1984 and has built and redeveloped buildings all
	along that block..."

>From Classrooms to Condos - New York Times, 2009.1011
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/realestate/11post.html

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Residential Design and Building News
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Shortfall of 25,000 Homes Possible - Stuff, 2009.1013
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/2957308/Shortfall-of-25-000-homes-possible

Historic Home Saved from the Brink - Franklin Press, 2009.1012
http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2009/10/12/living_in_macon/01living.txt

Help From Fannie and Freddie for Foreclosed Homes - New York Times, 2009.1011
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/realestate/11mort.html

Skeptics Question Housing Recovery - Philadelphia Inquirer, 2009.1011
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20091011_Skeptics_question_housing_recovery.html

Staying Put and Fixing Up - New York Times, 2009.1011
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/realestate/11lizo.html

Green, Convenient and Wallet-Friendly 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/realestate/11wczo.html

NSW Obsession with the McMansion Still Strong - AU News, 2009.1010
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,26190561-5013951,00.html

Sheep Help Retain Farmhouse Heat - BBC News, 2009.1009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8279194.stm

Gilt-Edged Vacancy - New York Times, 2009.1009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/realestate/11deal1.html

Home Building in D-FW Jumps 32 Percent in Third Quarter - Star-Telegram, 2009.1008
http://www.star-telegram.com/arlington_news/story/1669643.html

Home Builders Climb on Hopes for Buyer Tax-Credit Extension - Wall Street Journal, 2009.1008
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091008-711466.html

Building of Homes to Survive Rates Rise - The Australian, 2009.1008
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,26179547-36418,00.html

Homeowners Could Lose Insurance Coverage over Chinese-Drywall Woes - Miami Herald, 2009.1007
http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/1271892.html

Morphosis Builds 'Floating' House - BDC, 2009.1006
http://www.bdcnetwork.com/article/CA6700588.html?desc=topstory

Brookhaven to Spend $200G to Build Coram's Mott House Tribute - Newsday, 2009.1006
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/brookhaven-to-spend-200g-to-build-coram-s-mott-house-tribute-1.1505880

Custom Modular Direct Introduces New ECOLiving Modular Homes - Building Online, 2009.1006
http://www.buildingonline.com/news/viewnews.pl?id=8636&subcategory=208

Bankrupt Builder to Pay $475,000 in Wage Suit Deal - San Jose Mercury News, 2009.1006
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13499921

NYC Should Have Even Smaller Apartments - City Limits, 2009.1005
http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=3816&content_type=1&media_type=3
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Couple Builds a Modern Home on Top of a Venice Cottage - Los Angeles Times, 2009.1003
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-choeffkeck3-2009oct03,0,2886017.story?track=rss

When Frank Lloyd Wright Designed a Cottage for Ayn Rand - Los Angeles Times, 2009.1003
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-rand3-2009oct03,0,1407257.story

McMansions Out; Affordable Is In - , 2009.1003
http://newsok.com/mcmansions-out-affordable-is-in/article/3405528

Suburban Montreal Housing Project Is Friendly by Design - Victoria Times Colonist, 2009.1002
http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Suburban+Montreal+housing+project+friendly+design/2063216/story.html

Affordable Flair - Financial Times, 2009.1002
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f77a5b48-ae1f-11de-87e7-00144feabdc0.html

Suburban Montreal Housing Project Is Friendly by Design - Victoria Times Colonist, 2009.1002
http://www.timescolonist.com/business/Suburban+Montreal+housing+project+friendly+design/2063216/story.html

Reinventing the McMansion - Time, 2009.0929
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1924506,00.html

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Product News - Wall-Mounted Toilets from Duravit and The Geberit Group
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ArchiCAD 13 Norwegian Version Released - Graphisoft Press Release, 2009.1009
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Science Journals Crack Down on Image Manipulation - Nature, 2009.1009
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091009/full/news.2009.991.html

Bentley Names 2009 Be Inspired Special Recognition Winners - Bentley Press Release, 2009.1009
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Commands, Macros, Action! In AutoCAD 2009 and 2010 - Cadalyst, 2009.1008
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Autodesk Discontinues Stand-Alone ImageModeler Sales - Cadalyst, 2009.1007
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