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News • News • 7 Jan 2025
Temperaturas Extremas designs tree-like water reservoir with bird nests in Luxembourg City
Spanish architectural studio Temperaturas Extremas has designed a bird and mammal refuge and water reservoir in a protected forest in the “Plateau Kirchberg” quarter in north-eastern Luxembourg City. The studio’s challenge was to integrate the 50-meter-high structure with a 1,000-cubic-meter drinking water reservoir into the site’s sensitive context.
Temperaturas Extremas
Miguel Fernández-Galiano
The Luxembourg forest is listed as a Natura 2000 site, a network of more than 27,000 nature protection sites that extend across the 27 EU Member States. A study of the forest’s conditions and its relation to other Natura 2000 sites led Temperaturas Extremas to conceive a program that meets the... More
Product • By Studio Stirling • Nest Egg Hanging Swing Chair
Nest Egg Hanging Swing Chair
The Nest Egg hanging chair swing seat is inspired from the organic forms in birds' nests and has a natural egg shape. The chair has been designed to be extremely comfortable and has a cozy cocoon-like feel. It will embrace your body with its nest-like form.
The Nest Egg now comes with legs / base as an option that does not need to be suspended.
They are ideal for inside or outside use and look gorgeous on a deck, patio, hanging from a branch of a tree or anywhere indoors.
Each one is made by hand. The core frame is standard to ensure consistency in shape and comfort. Due to the variance of craftsmanship going into each chair, every piece has individualism and uniqueness in some of the pattern detailing.
Stainless Steel recommended for h... More
Project • By Cheng Tsung FENG • Sculptures
Nesting Plan I Gray-Cheeked Fulvetta
The Gray-Cheeked Fulvetta is an endemic bird species in Taiwan named from its grey head with a white eye ring and long black eye stripe running from the bill down the sides of the neck. In traditional Taiwanese aborigines, Thao, in Sun Moon Lake, it been seen as a spiritual bird. Its chirping is carefully listened to for guidance to steer clear of ill fortunes before any serious undertaking.
The Nesting Plan by artist Cheng Tsung FENG is a work project by learning nesting process from the animal architect in forest. For this project, he follow the nesting procedures of Grey-Cheeked Fulvetta (twig selection plus contacting, grass blades, flowers and soft cushions). FENG converts the way of nesting into timber structure technique and... More