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.

Solar panels can be safely installed on most kinds of metal roofs, including copper, steel, ... For instance, if you have a standing seam roof that's had some time to settle onto your house, ...

Copper roofing materials top the price charts, coming in between $20 and $40 per square foot or $2,000 and $4,000 per roofing square. A 1,700-square-foot roof could cost up to $68,000 between ...

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.