An angular English home extension and a timber-clad Guatemalan retreat feature in our roundup of buildings with butterfly roofs. Otherwise known as inverted-pitched roofs, the V-shaped structures ...

The design choice was made in response to the private community’s requirement that homes have pitched roofs. The butterfly roof provides a half canopy over the main terrace at a getaway in New ...

we take a more in-depth look at the disadvantages of a butterfly roof in shed applications, and explain why a mono-pitched roof is a better shed roof design. Read more: Can You Use Vinyl Flooring ...

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. The DHaus ...

In addition to their primary function, roofs are one of the most fundamental elements in the aesthetics of a building, taking different shapes, being composed of different structures and sealed by ...

Conventional wisdom has it that the best roof for a house in a snow-prone location is a pitched roof: that way the snow doesn’t pile up and cause the roof to collapse. The downside, the snow can ...