ArchWeek Residential 2010.1006

[Kevin]

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

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

The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, California, describes a local display of the continuing hunger in our sector...

"The more than two-hour meeting hosted Wednesday afternoon by the city of San Bernardino attracted about 350 people, with the last arrivals obliged to stand in the back.

"The audience was filled with seasoned veterans in the construction trades. Representatives of Southern California Edison Co., Southern California Gas Co., schools and various government and private agencies told them how to get training and certifications so they will be eligible to participate in the new business that is expected to materialize in months ahead.

"Some people who had already taken a free course in home energy audits at Chaffee Community College had tags dangling from their necks that told contractors they were available for hire.

"Their hope is pinned on Energy Upgrade California, a statewide rebate program that will start lining up contractors later this month. It is designed to spur homeowners to retrofit their homes to be more energy efficient and therefore cheaper to maintain."

Construction Pins Hopes on Green - Press-Enterprise, 2010.0930
http://www.pe.com/business/local/storie ... c4496.html

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Residential Design and Building News
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Builders Move Beyond McMansions in New Jersey - New York Times, 2010.1006
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/reale ... nsity.html

U.S. Housing Shows Stability, Factory Orders Fall - Fox Business, 2010.1004
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010 ... ders-fall/

Foreign Buyers See Big Opportunity in Housing Bust - Associated Press, 2010.1004
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... =D9IL4I780

Japan's Calligraphy-Inspired Home Interior and Garden Design - CNN, 2010.1004
http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/life/japans- ... ign-791447

BofA Foreclosures May Prompt Servicer-Rating Cut, Moody's Says - Bloomberg, 2010.1004
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-0 ... -says.html

Blower Door Test - Root Design-Build Blog, 2010.1004
http://www.rootdesignbuild.com/blog/unc ... door-test/

Obama Mortgage Modification Bailout Distorts Housing Market - National Legal and Policy Center, 2010.1004
http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2010/10/04/ ... ing-market

UC Weighs What to Do with Abandoned President's Mansion - Los Angeles Times, 2010.1004
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 9084.story

Migrant 'Villages' within a City Ignite Debate - New York Times, 2010.1003
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/world ... ijing.html

A Haven for Hedonists: Australia's Mornington Peninsula - Sydney Morning Herald, 2010.1003
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/a-haven-fo ... 163u4.html

Designers Share Ways to Bring Warmth to Enormous Spaces - Detroit Free Press, 2010.1003
http://www.freep.com/article/20101003/B ... ous-spaces

New Aging Explores Trajectory of Science, Aging and Architecture for Senior Housing - Senior Housing News, 2010.1003
http://seniorhousingnews.com/2010/10/03 ... r-housing/

Architecture Solves Problems - Kansas City Star, 2010.1002
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/02/22 ... -city.html

Quake Paves Way for Fresh Thinking - Stuff, 2010.1002
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/4 ... h-thinking

Architecture Meets Views in Northwest Hills Home - Austin-American Statesman, 2010.1002
http://www.statesman.com/business/real- ... 49861.html

Construction Spending in U.S. Unexpectedly Climbs - Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.1001
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-1 ... limbs.html

Wenatchee Man Hopes Home Lasts 500 Years - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2010.1001
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_w ... _last.html

Welcome to Smallville - New York Times, 2010.1001
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/t-mag ... ell-t.html

Candidates for Metro Council President Debate land-use, Growth Policies - Oregonian, 2010.1001
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/i ... l_p_1.html

Fannie Mae Investors Can't Sue over Some Securities Fraud Claims, Losses - Bloomberg, 2010.0930
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-3 ... ate1-.html

Modern Factory-Built Homes Boast Architectural Flair - Arizona Republic, 2010.0930
http://www.azcentral.com/style/hfe/deco ... ities.html

Calif. Couple's Home Designed for Entertaining, Collections - Kansas City Star, 2010.0930
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/30/22 ... d-for.html

Waste Not: Nonprofit Rehabs Discarded Houses into Super-Efficient Homes - Kansas City Star, 2010.0930
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/30/22 ... arded.html

New Zealand Home Building, Confidence Suggest Slow Recovery - Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0930
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-0 ... overy.html

The Frank Lloyd Wright 300-Grand-or-Less Deathmatch - Curbed, 2010.0927
http://curbed.com/archives/2010/09/27/l ... ucks-1.php

Florida Voters Enter Battle on Growth - New York Times, 2010.0927
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/po ... orida.html

Downsizing Is Booming - San Diego Union-Tribune, 2010.0925
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010 ... s-booming/

Building Slump Blamed for State Jobless Rate - San Francisco Chronicle, 2010.0922
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1FHBS0.DTL

Builders Betting on Renters - CNBC, 2010.0921
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39290370

People and Places, by Nancy Novitski
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2010/0929/news_1-1.html

Herzog and de Meuron, with Platt Byard Dovell White in
New York, New York - Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture
in Mahwah, New Jersey - GKV Architects in New York, New
York - UNStudio in Amsterdam, Netherlands -- RTKL in
Chengdu, China - Farr Associates in Chicago, Illinois -
Leo A Daly in Fort Myers, Florida...

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