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High rise for wildlife?

Leeds based architects Garnett Netherwood have won an international competition to construct 12-meter high "wildlife towers" along the Leeds and Liverpool canal. The towers will be constructed from parts of demolished buildings.

The brains behind the project is 26 year old Neil Oxlee, who hopes the towers will act as a habitat for bats, birds, butterflies, insects and even foxes.

The competition's organisers - the Leeds City Council-backed Holbeck Urban Village community business -  say they launched the competition to stimulate the return of wildlife to urban areas in which it has largely disappeared.

There's more information here.
Last modified on Thursday, 11 June 2009 17:06