Nicer Design creates bird-box house numbers to encourage urban birdlife
Polish design studio Nicer Design has created the Numbird collection of digit-shaped nesting boxes for small birds in urban areas. More
Polish design studio Nicer Design has created the Numbird collection of digit-shaped nesting boxes for small birds in urban areas. More
Members of ten architecture studios including Snøhetta, Brooks + Scarpa and Gensler have designed birdhouses for an exhibition on display at Brackenridge Park in San Antonio, Texas for an initiative to support restoration projects in the park. More
Danish architecture studio BIG has revealed its Biosphere treehouse at the Treehotel in Swedish Lapland, which is surrounded by birdhouses. More
Artists, architects and designers, including SO-IL, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio and Roman and Williams, have created numerous birdhouses as part of the For the Birds installation at The Brooklyn Botanic Garden. More
Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled its design for a hotel room surrounded by hundreds of birdhouses for the Treehotel in Sweden. More
IKEA worked with UK artists and designers to create this series of animal habitats, repurposed from the company's used furniture. More
Kingston University graduate Aaron Dunkerton has designed an enclosed cavity brick fitting that allows endangered birds to nest in new buildings and garden walls. More
Product news: British design brand All Lovely Stuff have created a bird box inside a flowerpot. More
Japanese designers Nendo have built an enormous woodland nesting box with 78 entrances for birds on one side and one big door for humans on the other (+ slideshow). More
Brooklyn artist Mark Reigelman and San Francisco architect Jenny Chapman have installed a wooden hut in an unusual city location – suspended on the side of a San Francisco hotel like a bird box. More
American designer Chad Wright stretched the archetypal birdhouse shape to create penthouse nest boxes with varying heights. More
Designers Osko+Deichmann of Berlin have covered a series of domestic objects in a coating normally applied to street furniture in order to prevent vandalism. More
These bird and bug boxes have been installed by art and architecture collective London Fieldworks around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing. More
London designer Gitta Gschwendtner has completed a wall that incorporates 1,000 nest boxes for birds and bats in Cardiff Bay, UK. More
Milan update: TuttoBene was our favourite of the independent group shows this year, setting up shop in a warehouse just across the train tracks from Via Tortona and presenting work by young designers from Belgium and the Netherlands. More