Residential Design & Building Headlines 2012.0410

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Low Rise for Student Comfort - Sydney Morning Herald, 2012.0411
http://www.smh.com.au/business/low-rise ... 1wn3e.html

Leighton Targets Urban Living - Sydney Morning Herald, 2012.0411
http://www.smh.com.au/business/leighton ... 1wn3c.html

US Housing Advocates Allege Wells Fargo Discriminating Against Minority Foreclosures - Washington Post, 2012.0410
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... story.html

A Solution to the Residential Energy Efficiency "Split Incentive" Problem - Triple Pundit, 2012.0410
http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/04/sol ... e-problem/

The Greenest Building May Actually Be a Neighborhood - Atlantic Cities, 2012.0410
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighb ... hood/1719/

Godsmark Architecture's Kent Holiday Home Wins Planning - Building Design (registration required), 2012.0410
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/godsmark ... 64.article

Spanish Home Sales Slump Most in Six Months Amid Recession - Bloomberg, 2012.0410
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-1 ... ssion.html

Warning for Home Owners as Mortgage Rates Rise - Telegraph, 2012.0410
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/pers ... -rise.html

U.S. May Require Banks to Provide More Information on Mortgages - Los Angeles Times, 2012.0410
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-b ... 7695.story

Condo Building Goes Extra Distance - Wall Street Journal, 2012.0409
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 96936.html

Low-Energy House Made of Steel - Graitec, 2012.0409
http://www.graitec.com/En/news.asp?NewsID=579

Building Each Corner at a Time - Pendulum, 2012.0409
http://elonpendulum.com/2012/04/buildin ... at-a-time/

U.S. Announces Settlement Against Chicago Owners and Management Companies - HUD Press Release, 2012.0409
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src ... DNo.12-067

Construction Officials Pushing Prefab Revival - Hartford Business, 2012.0409
http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news23395.html

Neighbors Accept Loss of Trees for Development of Northwest Portland Apartments - Daily Journal of Commerce, 2012.0409
http://djcoregon.com/news/2012/04/09/ne ... partments/

Adjacent Properties on Divisadero Were Reshaped by Pioneer in Women's Architecture - San Francisco Chronicle, 2012.0408
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1NVJPL.DTL

New Name, New Strategy for Longtime Builder - Chicago Tribune, 2012.0407
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classifie ... 4409.story

New Director of the Philip Johnson Glass House to Revive Networking at the Fabled Retreat - Architect's Newspaper, 2012.0406
http://www.archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5985

Dirt Is Making a Comeback - Philadelphia Inquirer, 2012.0406
http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists ... eback.html

From Industrial Space to Illuminated Urban Loft - New York Times, 2012.0406
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/great ... rid06.html

Chicago Housing Market 'Fragile' - Chicago Tribune, 2012.0406
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ ... 4217.photo

Obama Administration Releases March Housing Scorecard - HUD, 2012.0406
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src ... DNo.12-068

An 18th-Century Gem Enters the 21st Century - New York Times, 2012.0406
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/great ... roe06.html

The House That Sam Built Still Stands - Toronto Star, 2012.0405
http://www.thestar.com/specialsections/ ... ill-stands

Seattle Signals Glut Risk as Apartment Construction Rises - Bloomberg, 2012.0405
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-0 ... rises.html

Hud Announces 'Maternity Discrimination Settlements,' Kicks Off Fair Housing Month - HUD Press Release, 2012.0405
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src ... DNo.12-066

New Northwest Architecture - ArchitectureWeek, 2012.0404
http://www.architectureweek.com/2012/0404/index.html

Worker Killed in Brooklyn Collapse - Wall Street Journal, 2012.0403
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 91994.html

Creativity and Cost-Savings Measures Reflected in Top New Home Design Trends - NAHB Press Release, 2012.0402
http://www.nahb.com/news_details.aspx?newsID=15167

New Urbanism: Old-Fashioned Design in for Long Run - Chicago Tribune, 2012.0330
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classifie ... 6173.story

Luxury Homes Flush with Bathrooms - Chicago Tribune, 2012.0330
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classifie ... 5735.story

Replacing a Bathtub with a Luxury Walk-in Shower - New York Times, 2012.0328
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/garde ... hower.html