Sunshades, {e.g. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens }; Awnings {or baldachins }; of flexible canopy materials, e.g. canvas {; Baldachins} comprising a roller-blind with means for holding the end away from a building {with articulated arms supporting the movable end of the blind for deployment of the blind whereby the pivot axis of the articulation is perpendicular to the roller whereby the plane defined by three consecutive articulation points of an articulated arm is not parallel to the rotation axis of the roller, e.g. to create a saddle type roof construction or to prevent contact between the cloth and the arm sections}