A large corrugated metal roof extends from front to back over the second floor of this house in the Australian city of Melbourne, making it appear from the street to only have a single level.

Rust was corrugated iron’s first problem. Galvanisation—coating it with corrosion-resistant zinc—was the solution. By the mid-19th century Britain’s galvanising industry was using 10,000 ...

Archmongers turned a section of walled garden of a 1980s London house into a living space with saw-tooth roof, earning it the dinosaur-inspired name Stego.

The “zinco,” the strips of corrugated tin with which he works, does have great historical resonance, having been used to roof the semi-permanent structures erected to house the Palestinian refugees ...