Flat roofs share one trait: with time, they tend to leak. You can, of course, have a new hot-tar-and-gravel roof put down but sometimes there may be a design reason for adding a pitched roof as a ...

Q: I enjoyed the article about puddling on flat roofs (Nov. 2, 2002). I have a slope problem on a 12-by-10-foot one-story addition attached at one edge to a higher wall of my split-level house.

Many of us love the territorial style — the flat roofs, the parapet walls above the roofs, ... you can buy faux versions made from a concrete-and-fiber composite to fasten in place of old logs.

Workers remove concrete parapet pieces recently from the third floor of Gary City Hall as part of a green roof project. Gary’s $1.2 million project is designed to capture up to 1-1/2 inches of ...

The architects from Brasil Arquitetura have improved an inventive and very simple solution to avoid infiltrations in flat slabs, much used in the 70's by architects like Paulo Mendes da Rocha and ...