It’s an essential architectural element, one we tend to immediately take note of when we look at buildings new to us – the roof. The roofs that shelter the buildings we see in our cities today are ...

Most corrugated roofing sheets are resistant to rust because they are coated. Most buildings are never complete without a roof. Without it, the house seems bare. Therefore, when picking what to roof ...

Corrugated iron and steel are the most prosaic of building materials, used in North America mostly for industrial purposes, although a few modernist architects have played with the stuff. Invented in ...

When San Francisco artist Agelio Batle sought a durable facing material for his remodeled Potrero Hill home, he didn't have to look far for inspiration. Warehouses in his neighborhood, once an ...

Available now in all sorts of colour ways and wrinkle widths, it’s easier to talk about where it hasn’t been applied rather that where it has, because the rippled steel is being used for cladding ...

These three corrugated zinc and galvanised steel cabins by Graal Architecture provide a stilted reading room and sports hall for a nursery school in western Paris (+ slideshow). The Parisian studio ...

DOWN THE deep lanes that lead to Dartmoor’s granite uplands, in England's West Country, a weather-beaten gap has grown in the hedge marking a Saxon field boundary. One day this winter a battered sheet ...

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Corrugated iron is the default roof material in much of the developing world, and there are several reasons why it’s far from ideal. One, iron has tendency to rust and degrade. Two, it heats up like a ...