angled roof

The angled roof is made out of a reflective, resin-coated metal and sits atop 9 inches of mineral wool insulation, which helps preserve the building’s interior temperatures and buffer external noise.

For six decades, Weller’s Dry Cleaning in downtown Silver Spring was hard to miss, with its angled roof and flashy red and pink porcelain enamel panels designed to grab the attention of passing motorists in the auto-loving 1960s-era suburbs.

The architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro refreshed Lincoln Center’s plazas, adding a restaurant whose angled roof is a sunning lawn, built a new bridge across 65th Street, enhanced Pietro Belluschi’s great Brutalist Juilliard School and, most remarkably, remade Alice Tully Hall, the center’s home for chamber music.

Q: The Lucki Farmhouse on San Juan Island has numerous energy-efficient design features: a solar array on the roof, radiant floor heating, an extra layer of foam in the walls, an efficient heat pump, and track lighting in the thinner angled roof areas to avoid thermal loss through the ceilings.

Many people surmised the building was once a Howard Johnson’s: orange, angled roof.