One of London's medieval treasures gets a new roof ... a building that was already getting on a bit when Shakespeare was born. The barn reckons to be London's oldest thatched building.

These make the building very strong ... What makes this home so unusual is its thatched roof, made from dry straw and reeds that have been tightly packed together. It might seem strange, but ...

An oversized thatched roof shelters the geometric concrete forms of this house in Vietnam, which has been completed by local architecture studio Kientruc O. Named Thu House, the 877-square-metre ...