"Underground," a part-Minimalist, part-Surrealist installation, has the shape of a car roof pushing up under a gallery floor completely covered in wood veneer.
Tesla has finalized a $2.6bn deal to buy solar power company SolarCity to produce solar "shingles" – photovoltaic material that would be fashioned into the shape of a house roof.
The differences are in the details, the slope of a roof, the shape of a window, the style of a kitchen cabinet.
Few existing buildings are as fortunate as 499 Park, which was designed by I. M. Pei and is sometimes called the Black Diamond because of the faceted shape of its roof — a shape only entirely clear from the inside when Mr. Klein's dropped ceilings were knocked out.
Back in South Beach, the Benetton store on Collins Avenue has been newly reimagined by its architects in Italy — along with a team from Fabrica, the company's communications research arm — to better reflect its tropical surroundings, complete with palm tree murals, a custom LED light fixture in the shape of a giant sunburst, and a "roof" of thatched bamboo over the dressing rooms.
A greenish fireball streaked across the sky from Kentucky eastward, delivering a rocky object roughly the size and shape of a football onto the roof of a Chevrolet parked in Peekskill, N.Y.
The acoustics are tricky – but, he says, "the orchestra is sitting at the back of a megaphone shape, a roof above them and angled floor below, so that should help the sound bounce out".
"We don't tend to think about the shape of the roof when we buy a house, except aesthetically," said Prof. Gregory A. Kopp of Western University.
He also makes a Bûche Maison, in the shape of a house, with a chocolate roof, and smaller bûchettes looking like Eskimo ice-cream bars, with wooden sticks, and a Bûche du Voyage, with a red coating and a detailed handle somehow fashioned out of chocolate.
