Outdoor-Indoor Designs for Birds, Plants, and People

June 5, 2012

Funny how some people find their passions. After tripping over an overgrown creeper’s tendril in 2008 and fracturing his hip, Johannesburg, South Africa-based designer, Joe Paine, was inspired to design products for plants.


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Modern Shelters for Upwardly Mobile Birds

August 1, 2011

Nathan Danials designs modernist bird dwellings that humans will wish were large enough for them.

Available: Modernist Birdhouse with Pool
For “upper middle class modernist birds,” looking to enjoy their leisure time, this clear western red cedar and birch birdhouse … Read More…

Urban Birds Offered New Nests in London

June 29, 2010

London has built something eco-friendly for the birds–the urban birds of the Bankside neighborhood, famous for the Tate Modern museum.  The architectural firm, 51% studios, has designed for the London Festival of Architecture, incorporating the theme of

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Winging it on Your Balcony

January 17, 2010

Birdhouse

Calling all city birders. Birdhouse, by French designer Emilie Cazin, links city balconies to their green surroundings, and urban apartment dwellers to the birds outside. Lacking a garden in her LEGO-like apartment building, Emilie Cazin created this Birdhouse in … Read More…

Duplex Housing for Winged Urbanites

September 9, 2009

birdhouse

Birdtreehut from, Maandag meubels, offers a birdhouse in a tree sans tree.  It’s a kind of duplex for the birds, a comfortable home for breading and  feeding in a garden, on a balcony or terrace.  The habitat is made … Read More…

Is Your Urban Garden For the Birds?

June 13, 2009

evasolo-bird-table

Share your urban garden sanctuary with your fine feathered friends: create an oasis that’s for the birds. The organic bird table by Eva Solo is a 5-liter glass container with a synthetic base that floats above the ground. The table … Read More…

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