GRASPING AT STRAWS is all the rage among a growing number of British homeowners, as Mark Phillips now shows us: When it comes to housing design, it's hard to get more retro than this: a thatched roof, ...

Q. I have an 11-year-old house in Tewksbury I built myself. It has a hand-split, rough-sawn, cedar-shingle roof. When it was first installed, and every two to three years since, I have had Penofin ...

Following its work creating Europe's largest green facade, Ingenhoven Associates has once again produced a building that showcases impressive sustainability. This time, the firm has topped a large ...

A “Storybook house” on South Yale Street in Spring Garden Township, once a Hollywood dream, devolved into a nightmare as its whimsical wood shingle roof that had endured for almost a century was ...

A modern design that borrows from its ancestors, the “Living on the Edge” house forges a union between tradition and simplicity. The home’s remarkable thatched roof and walls are only the beginning of ...

Roofing is a multimillion dollar industry in the country, and with the advent of new materials, technology and design ...

How does a thatch roof work and why don’t they leak? When visiting northern Uganda last week, I asked a wise soul, whose name was Francis, how a thatch roof actually worked. Francis’s nephew, Erick, ...

A real fun guy is behind this blooming beauty. Homes like the Charlevoix Mushroom House only sprout up once in a blue moon, but the property is currently listed for $4.5 million. Built in 1920, the ...