Andu Masebo and Rio Kobayashi are among 23 designers who have created birdhouses for an exhibition held at South London Gallery that aimed to unpack "what it means to build a house for a bird". More about Birdhouses informed by skyscrapers and modernism feature in Dwellings exhibition
Polish design studio Nicer Design has created the Numbird collection of digit-shaped nesting boxes for small birds in urban areas. More about Nicer Design creates bird-box house numbers to encourage urban birdlife
Members of ten architecture studios including Snøhetta, Brooks + Scarpa and Gensler have designed birdhouses for an exhibition on display at Brackenridge Park in San Antonio, Texas for an initiative to support restoration projects in the park. More about Snøhetta, Brooks + Scarpa among studios to create birdhouses for San Antonio exhibition
Danish architecture studio BIG has revealed its Biosphere treehouse at the Treehotel in Swedish Lapland, which is surrounded by birdhouses. More about BIG wraps Lapland hotel treehouse in 350 birdhouses
Artists, architects and designers, including SO-IL, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio and Roman and Williams, have created numerous birdhouses as part of the For the Birds installation at The Brooklyn Botanic Garden. More about Architects and designers create 33 conceptual birdhouses for Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled its design for a hotel room surrounded by hundreds of birdhouses for the Treehotel in Sweden. More about BIG reveals hotel room wrapped in 350 birdhouses
IKEA worked with UK artists and designers to create this series of animal habitats, repurposed from the company's used furniture. More about IKEA upcycles furniture into colourful Wildhomes for Wildlife
Kingston University graduate Aaron Dunkerton has designed an enclosed cavity brick fitting that allows endangered birds to nest in new buildings and garden walls. More about Bird Nesting Bricks by Aaron Dunkerton
Product news: British design brand All Lovely Stuff have created a bird box inside a flowerpot. More about Bird sNest Box by All Lovely Stuff
Japanese designers Nendo have built an enormous woodland nesting box with 78 entrances for birds on one side and one big door for humans on the other (+ slideshow). More about Bird-apartment by Nendo
Brooklyn artist Mark Reigelman and San Francisco architect Jenny Chapman have installed a wooden hut in an unusual city location – suspended on the side of a San Francisco hotel like a bird box. More about Manifest Destiny! by Mark Reigelman and Jenny Chapman
American designer Chad Wright stretched the archetypal birdhouse shape to create penthouse nest boxes with varying heights. More about Attic by Studio Chad Wright
Designers Osko+Deichmann of Berlin have covered a series of domestic objects in a coating normally applied to street furniture in order to prevent vandalism. More about Natural Indigo by Osko+Deichmann
These bird and bug boxes have been installed by art and architecture collective London Fieldworks around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing. More about Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heavenby London Fieldworks
London designer Gitta Gschwendtner has completed a wall that incorporates 1,000 nest boxes for birds and bats in Cardiff Bay, UK. More about Animal Wall by Gitta Gschwendtner
Milan update: TuttoBene was our favourite of the independent group shows this year, setting up shop in a warehouse just across the train tracks from Via Tortona and presenting work by young designers from Belgium and the Netherlands. More about Frederik Roijé at TuttoBene