Perhaps you've noticed it atop homes and businesses: copper details like trims, chimney caps, finials and awnings gleaming in the sun. Besides adding an impressive visual component, roof details made ...

Years ago, actors Robert Wagner and Jill St. John contacted Joe Zappone about having copper shingles installed on their roof. “Jill and I got along good on the phone,” Zappone recalled, “but Robert ...

Minimalism was key in the Copper House design. To that end, Radu Teacă clad the home’s double-pitched roof and façade in vertical strips of dark copper that emphasize the verticality of the house and ...

Waste from Upper Michigan's copper mines is a treasure for area roofers who can use stamp sand to make cheaper shingles from recycled material. Ralph Hodek, an associate professor of civil and ...