such as flat roofs, a much more viable option. By the beginning of the United States' modern architecture movement in the 1930s, synthetic materials were widely available, allowing residential ...

Flat roofs are commonly used for warehouses ... Gabled roofs are often used in residential architecture, and their triangular shape has become a visual shorthand for "house".

Different cultures at different times used flat roofs in their architecture ... whether in homes, residential or commercial buildings. Viewpoints, swimming pools, restaurants, vegetable gardens ...

"For once, the unique architecture ... than half of the roofs are flat and dark. "If you look at the Earth from space on Google Earth, you see that a lot of these dense residential city blocks ...

Asked to design the next generation of Chicago home types, reasonably priced and good-looking like the bungalows, two-flats and row houses of yore, the city’s architects delivered. A six-flat ...

Architects had bemoaned the old rule ... who spent years pushing for L.A. to rescind the flat-roof requirement. “Anyone who’s been to New York or cities like Shanghai, Hong Kong and even ...

was built circa 1929 with semi-circular wall dormers, casement windows, wrought-iron boxes, smooth stucco, a cast-stone balustrade and entry, and a flat-tile roof hipped roof. The architect was ...