In Puerto Rico, a U.S. Caribbean island exposed to both hurricanes and earthquakes, it is estimated that over half of all commercial and residential construction is constructed informally. While this ...

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 ...

Elliott Architects has designed this barn-like house in the Tyne Valley, England, with double-height living space beneath a steep gable ceiling. The locally-based practice built the four-bedroom home, ...

Jennifer Bonner, architectural designer and director of MALL, has completed Haus Gables, a new ground-up residential project that was built almost entirely out of cross-laminated timber (CLT), an ...

Q: The back of our house faces south. For some reason, the wood of the eaves — both the edge and the wood underneath — rots and appears moldy. This does not happen to the front of the house, which ...