"We need more of this in our lives" say commenters
In this week's comments update, readers are envious of the chickens who get to call a Kengo Kuma-designed chicken coop in Mexico home. More
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Five chicken coops around the world
We've rounded up five coops where chickens rule the roost, from a wooden hut in Turkey to Kengo Kuma's black pavilion at Casa Wabi. More
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Goldsmith unveils design for urban floating chicken farm in Rotterdam
Architecture studio Goldsmith has revealed the design for its floating chicken and cress farm, which is set to be built alongside its existing waterborne dairy farm in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. More
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Kengo Kuma builds blackened-wood chicken coop at Casa Wabi artist retreat
Kengo Kuma's firm has designed a coop for chickens living at the Casa Wabi arts foundation in Mexico to be like a collective housing project. More
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SO? builds modular House of Chickens on a farm in Turkey
House of Chickens, designed by architecture studio SO?, is a modular coop for 800 chickens on an artist's farm in Turkey. More
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Chan Brisco Architects builds wooden chicken coop that looks like a log cabin in rural Finland
This wooden chicken coop, installed in the grounds of summer house in rural Finland, is styled like a miniature log cabin perched above the ground on granite rocks. More
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Tropical Space creates playground for chickens and children in Vietnam
Vietnamese studio Tropical Space has created an elaborate coop that features a network of boxes, platforms and stairs, which can be used by both chickens and children. More
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Slaughtered bird flu-infected chickens transformed into furniture by Emilie van Spronsen
Dutch Design Week 2015: Dutch designer Emilie van Spronsen harvested feathers and bones from the corpses of bird flu-infected chickens to create this stool and urn. More
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Sheffer Chicken Coop is a metal-clad New York home for eight hens
Asked to design a New York home for chickens rather than people, Architecture Research Office has completed a metal-clad bunker featuring wooden nesting boxes and underfloor heating (+ slideshow). More
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Headless rooftop chickens by Rootoftwo respond to internet panic levels
Detroit studio Rootoftwo has installed weather vanes shaped like headless chickens on five buildings in Folkestone, England, which spin around and change colour in response to fear levels on the internet rather than the climate (+ slideshow). More
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Virtual reality headsets create "pastoral" illusion for battery-farmed chickens
Battery-farmed chickens could be tricked into thinking they are roaming free if dressed in virtual reality headsets designed as a tongue-in-cheek proposal by US company Second Livestock (+ interview). More
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Foxes Den cafe by Hecker Guthrie references a chicken coop
Wooden structures and traditional joinery are used in this Melbourne takeaway chicken shop by local interior designers Hecker Guthrie to evoke the appearance of a chicken coop. More
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Hönshus-1 by Torsten Ottesjö
This chicken coop by Swedish architect and designer Torsten Ottesjö is designed to look like the protective wing of a mother hen. More
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The Chicken Project by Kieren Jones
In this movie filmed by Dutch design organisation Premsela during their symposium Me Craft/You Industry in January, Welsh designer Kieren Jones explains how he constructed a miniature factory to transform the uneaten parts of a chicken into a gold leather flying jacket and a bone china eggcup and spoon. More
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Breed and Retreat by Frederik Roijé
Milan 2010: Dutch designer Frederik Roijé will present a home for chickens called Breed and Retreat in Milan next month. More
