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  • Seven urban refuges for bees living in cities

    Seven shelters for city-dwelling bees

    As cities grow and bee populations continue to dwindle, designers are increasingly looking for ways to bring nature to urban areas. In celebration of World Bee Day, we've rounded up seven urban shelters for the vital insects. More

    Natashah Hitti | 20 May 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Space10 shares platform for people to create "dream home" for bees

    IKEA's research lab Space10 has developed a series of open-source bee homes that anyone can design themselves for free before having it made using a CNC machine. More

    Natashah Hitti | 20 May 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Marlène Huissoud creates sculptural "hotels" for city-dwelling insects

    Marlène Huissoud creates sculptural chairs as hotels for city-dwelling insects

    French designer Marlène Huissoud asks humans to "Please Stand By" with her first chairs, which are designed to be refuges for insects. More

    Natashah Hitti | 8 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • IKEA Wildhomes for Wildlife

    IKEA upcycles furniture into colourful Wildhomes for Wildlife

    IKEA worked with UK artists and designers to create this series of animal habitats, repurposed from the company's used furniture. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 21 March 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Atelier Boelhouwer designs artificial flowers to help urban insects thrive

    Matilde Boelhouwer designs artificial flowers to feed urban insects

    Dutch designer Matilde Boelhouwer has designed a series of artificial flowers that turn rain into sugar water, to serve as emergency food sources for city-dwelling insect pollinators. More

    Natashah Hitti | 12 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Refugio shelters by MaliArts

    Refugio shelters aim to make solitary bees feel at home in cities

    Mexico-based creative studio MaliArts has designed a series of three structures for solitary bees living in built-up areas to help welcome nature into urban environments. More

    Natashah Hitti | 30 October 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Bee-saving paper

    Bee Saving Paper could bring the bee population back from the brink

    A glucose-rich paper touted as an "energy drink for bees" could help prevent the endangered insects dying of exhaustion as they search for flowers. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 1 June 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Walmart files patent for autonomous robot bees

    US supermarket giant Walmart is seeking to patent technology that would see drones pollinate crops like bees. More

    Amy Frearson | 20 March 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Synthetic Polleniser could help depleting bee population

    Brisbane-based artist Michael Candy has proposed a method of artificial pollination using 3D-printed robotic flowers, in a bid to help increase the dwindling bee population. More

    Gunseli Yalcinkaya | 19 February 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Neri Oxman synthetic apiary

    The Synthetic Apiary lets bees enjoy year-round spring

    Designer and researcher Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter group at MIT Media Lab has designed an artificial apiary that creates a constant spring-like environment for bees. More

    Emma Tucker | 26 October 2016 | 8 comments
  • Honey Factory by Francesco Faccin

    Francesco Faccin creates "micro architecture" for bees with Honey Factory

    This wooden beehive by Italian designer Francesco Faccin has a 4.5-metre chimney to keep its inhabitants away from children and vandals (+ movie). More

    Dan Howarth | 1 July 2015 | 3 comments
  • Beehives by Snohetta

    Snøhetta entices bees into Oslo with honey-coloured Vulkan Beehives

    Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta has designed a series of wooden hives for the roof of an Oslo food court to encourage bees to take up residence in the city (+ slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 27 August 2014 | 2 comments
  • Bees printing concrete by John Becker and Geoff Manaugh

    Bees could 3D-print "concrete honey" to form architectural structures

    Writer Geoff Manaugh and designer John Becker have imagined a scenario in which genetically modified bees could be trained to print detailed concrete structures rather than produce honey (+ interview). More

    Dan Howarth | 27 July 2014 | 15 comments
  • Apiarium beehive by Bettina Madita Bohm

    Bettina Madita Böhm creates Apiarium hive for urban beekeepers

    Design graduate Bettina Madita Böhm has created a cylindrical concrete beehive for urban beekeepers to use on the roofs of city buildings. More

    Amy Durrant | 16 May 2014 | 5 comments
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    Honey bees can be trained to detect cancer "in ten minutes" says designer

    Dutch Design Week 2013: Portuguese designer Susana Soares has developed a device for detecting cancer and other serious diseases using trained bees ( + slideshow). More

    Ross Bryant | 20 November 2013 | 15 comments
  • Dewar's Highlander Honey bottle

    Honeycomb vase designer says whisky campaign "unabashedly exploits" his work

    News: a designer who developed a technique for harnessing bees to create physical objects has accused a major brand of exploiting his work. More

    Marcus Fairs | 24 July 2013 | 16 comments
  • Skyscraper for bees by University at Buffalo students

    Skyscraper for bees by University at Buffalo students

    High-rise living is no longer just for people. A team of architecture students from the University at Buffalo has recently constructed a skyscraper for a colony of bees (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 6 May 2013 | 25 comments
  • London Without Bees by Ben Kirk

    London Without Bees by Ben Kirk

    Architecture student Ben Kirk has designed conceptual towers to replace the fast-declining bee population by shooting artificial pollinators into the air. More

    Amy Frearson | 28 June 2011 | 16 comments
  • The Honeycomb Vase 2007 by Studio Libertiny

    The Honeycomb Vase 2007 by Studio Libertiny

    Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny has sent us images of his new series of Honeycomb Vases, which are made by bees. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More

    Marcus Fairs | 30 August 2007 | 1 comment
  • More on the bee vase

    Milan update: Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny has sent us another photo of his extraordinary vase made by bees. More

    Marcus Fairs | 23 April 2007 | Leave a comment
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