Our latest Dezeen guide explores seven types of roofs, including hip roofs, sawtooth roofs and vaulted roofs. At their most basic, roofs are a cover to protect a building against the weather. While ...

Designed by a sustainability-forward architecture firm, this 1,550-square-foot house employs traditional building techniques ...

Architect Shigeru Ban builds churches, houses and pavilions out of paper and bamboo. These are traditional materials of Japanese architecture, but they are anomalous in the modern world of concrete, ...

High-profile architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed its design for a new travel center in Västerås, Sweden. The project will host much of the city's major transport infrastructure ...

Text description provided by the architects. The Owner requested a small potting/writing studio, an outdoor deck, and a fence to separate the driveway from the garden. The project is sited between an ...

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 take ...

The annual Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) offers a superb opportunity to check out a wide range of projects from around the world. Featuring everything from landscape projects to towers and high-end ...

Historically, architecture and the built environment have insisted on creating flat, hard surfaces. In earlier eras, walking without paved ground meant mud-caked shoes, uneven footing, tripping ...

Victorian architecture spanned the 64-year reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901. During her sovereignty, seven styles of architecture were prevalent; Second Empire, Italianate, Stick Eastlake, ...

What does a house look like? To most of us, the image that comes to mind is like a Monopoly piece: a foursquare cube with a sloped roof on top. And yet among many architects, that shape has long been ...