Insect hotel design

Tower containing living wall and bug boxes or insect hotels. “Future Nature” Garden, by Ark Design Management Ltd, RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009.

DIY insect hotels for the garden have become a popular way to help bees and pollinators, but do they really work? Are they good or bad for the pollinator garden? Visit the blog and read the article to learn more, and find out if an insect hotel is the best strategy for your pollinator garden design and layout.

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DIY insect hotels: what are they and why make one? When you put an insect hotel in your garden, you are actively welcoming these beautiful little creatures which are extremely beneficial for the wellbeing of all your garden plants. This DIY insect hotel, also known as a bug hotel

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If you are a gardener by hobby and a nature enthusiast by heart, chances are that you are already familiar with the concept of insect hotels (also known as bee hotels). Offering a sanctuary to bene…

For this year’s Milan exhibition we went together with designer Edvin Klasson to propose our first project intended for a non-human lifeform. The resulting concept is Koloni - an architectural hatching shelter for pollinating insects.

The K-Abeilles Hotel for Bees provides a safe and intriguing space for wild bees to take refuge and also offers up a shady resting spot for humans at the Muttersholtz Archi Festival.

Vestre is showcasing urban furniture that encourages biodiversity at this year's Milan design week, set within a leafy installation by Note Design Studio.

Arup Associates have just won the Beyond the Hive Competition, sponsored by the City of London, to design a Bug Hotel for its parks. This one encourages the presence of stag beetles, solitary bees, butterflies, moths, spiders, lacewings and ladybirds by combining all these species' required environments into one.The 'hotel'...