GRASPING AT STRAWS is all the rage among a growing number of British homeowners, as Mark Phillips now shows us: When it comes to housing design, it's hard to get more retro than this: a thatched roof, ...

Thatched roofs may be synonymous with traditional architecture, but this roundup points to a revival of the age-old craft in contemporary buildings across the globe. Used to create thick, insulating ...

How does a thatch roof work and why don’t they leak? When visiting northern Uganda last week, I asked a wise soul, whose name was Francis, how a thatch roof actually worked. Francis’s nephew, Erick, ...

Perhaps the iconic image of developing-world poverty is a small collection of huts with thatched roofs. Unfortunately for those living in such places, these roofs are terrible. They leak and, when ...

Thatching is a traditional building technique that has been reinterpreted in different ways in contemporary projects, allowing its value to continue to endure over time. As well as being a culturally ...

A 17th-century-style Bermuda dwelling is getting a makeover after its roof, made of palmetto leaves, was damaged in the last hurricane season. The roof of the Settlers’ Cabben at Carter House Museum ...

They hope to replace the thatched roof of Oak Cottage, a Grade II listed building located off the A4104 near Defford.