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Modern architecture gets foothold at Tahoe Contemporary designs taking hold in communities around Lake Tahoe By Laura Read Updated Nov 4, 2012 2:05 a.m.

You may have noticed modern architectural design often uses flat roofs for homes. Other than the aesthetic reasons, here are the advantages of a flat roof.

A hallmark of modern home design, flat roofs can also be less expensive to install than sloped or pitched roofs. Flat roof repairs cost $700, on average, with high repair costs of about $1,100 and ...

The trunk of a Brazilian firetree pierces the white zinc-coated roof of a house by Aaksen Responsible Aarchitecture in Bandung, Indonesia.

Even as the flat-roofed house is becoming a mainstream choice, a young generation of designers has been doing creative things with sloped roofs, treating those familiar shapes in modern ways.

Explore the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, a village of 12 pavilions reimagining historic urbanism and landscape in Suzhou. Designed by BIG.

3dor Concepts used a sloping roof to cover the House of Noufal in India, which features an internal courtyard garden that can be opened up to the outdoors.

The 60,000-sm Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China recently topped out. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the museum is conceived as a village of 12 ...