Urban Birdhouse Art Installation

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Urban Birdhouse Art Installation

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If you think that efficiency apartments are for the birds, then you might appreciate this project by artist collective London Field Works called Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven.

London Fieldworks’ Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heaven is a sculptural installation drawing on the ecology and biodiversity of two sites on opposite sides of London: Duncan Terrace Gardens in the East and Cremorne Gardens in the West. The installations are constructed from several hundred bespoke bird boxes mounted in two trees of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) and reflect the forms of the surrounding architecture; a combination of Georgian town houses, and 60’s social housing around Duncan Terrace Gardens, and the World’s End Estate adjacent to Cremorne Gardens.

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