Alternatively, consider a copper or black metal roof with deep navy shades that can hold their own against the contrast.

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California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square ...

Gianni Botsford Architects has slotted a House in a Garden topped with a funnel-shaped copper roof behind a 19th century townhouse in London.

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Still, the Metal Roofing Alliance in Gig Harbor, Wash., acknowledged that metal -- zinc, steel, copper and galvalume (galvanized steel) -- accounts for only 4 percent of roofing used in ...

Metal roofs typically last longer than 50 years—with copper and zinc roofs specifically sticking it out for more than a century. The catch? Copper roofs cost more than $50,000 on average.

Aluminum roofs have recycled content of 95 percent or more and steel and copper roofs of about 35 percent, according to Miller, who is also vice president of the nonprofit Metal Roof Alliance (MRA).