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• Home tweet home: birdhouses designed by artists – in pictures

  02-07-2022 18:00
  
  One of the few positives from lockdown is the number of city dwellers who connected with urban wildlife during the long days at home. New York-based music supervisor Randall Poster is one of them. He loved listening to birdsong in the quiet city so much that he decided to highlight the birds’ plight as their habitats vanish. With producer Rebecca Reagan, he created For the Birds, a multidisciplinary initiative that includes The Birdsong Project, a 20-LP box set of music and poems to enjoy.
  
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• ‘We want it to come alive’: landscape architect’s plan to transform Notre Dame area

  02-07-2022 08:00
  
  Bas Smets’ project, featuring trees and a cooling system, aims to create a more pedestrian-friendly space around Paris landmarkFor most of the last year, the Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets could be found walking purposefully around the Île de la Cité in central Paris staring at and thinking about Notre Dame Cathedral.On a blazing hot day in the French capital he is back there, pointing at the landmark, still shrouded in scaffolding after it was ravaged by a devastating
  
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• ‘We want it to come alive’: architect’s plan to transform Notre Dame area

  02-07-2022 08:00
  
  Bas Smets’ project, featuring trees and a cooling system, aims to create a more pedestrian-friendly space around Paris landmarkFor most of the last year, the Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets could be found walking purposefully around the Île de la Cité in central Paris staring at and thinking about Notre Dame Cathedral.On a blazing hot day in the French capital he is back there, pointing at the landmark, still shrouded in scaffolding after it was ravaged by a devastating
  
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