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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.
Lenny Antonelli is deputy editor of Passive House Plus. He also writes regularly for the Irish Times, and has contributed to a variety of other publications including the Sunday Times, the CS Monitor, Village, the Sunday Tribune amd the Dubliner. He is currently working on a radio documentary on Ireland's oceans.
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