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 ...

Did you ever notice how a preschooler draws a house? More often than not, it has a gable roof and a chimney with smoke that is perpendicular to the roof rather than the ground. It’s the simplest, most ...