The house one may conjure in their mind's eye after hearing the phrase "modern home" will ... new materials like steel and concrete made differently structured roofs, such as flat roofs, a much ...

Their idea was to turn the crumbling concrete structure into a modern apartment building ... made of steel and concrete was in bad shape, with no insulation, a leaking roof and poor drainage.

It has been observed that installing a metal roof ... or concrete. The poor conductor has more electrical resistance, which converts some of the lightning's tremendous electrical energy into heat, ...

Brazilian firm Laurent Troost Architects has built a concrete house in ... space of the upper floor of the house," said the studio. Made from Corten steel, the roof extends over the edges of ...

What was meant to be a modern concrete ... It’s a two-story, block house of stark concrete, with a sliding glass door, narrow horizontal windows across the top, and metal balcony affixed to ...

modern design. The house, however, is being built to net zero energy efficiency standards complete with Vancouver’s first solar roof where the panels are incorporated into the roofing material ...