Everyone has heard the thunk of a bird hitting a window. It’s startling, and then it’s sad. But what few of us realize is just how widespread the problem is. Across North America, buildings account ...

A year after nearly 1,000 migrating birds were killed from striking exterior glass at Lakeside Center, an exhibition space at McCormick Place in Chicago, a $1.2-million project to install a ...

Ask any bird expert what the leading causes of unnecessary bird deaths are in the U.S. and they will probably say domestic and feral cats and buildings. The folks planning the new $900 million ...

When Columbia College called on Gensler to restore a historic Michigan Avenue façade, the design team put a bird on it. They had previously discussed Chicago’s problem with bird collisions — due to ...

In keeping with its conservation mission, the National Aquarium in Baltimore has announced plans to make all of the glass in its buildings “bird safe.” The institution is planning to replace all 684 ...

A bird-friendly film has been applied to the exterior glass at Lakeside Center, which overlooks Lake Michigan, to prevent birds from flying into the mostly steel-and-glass structure. A year after ...

The IAC Headquarters is Frank Gehry’s first building in New York. Neither a symphony hall nor an art gallery clad in riveting titanium that creates its own economic system, it is rather a diminutive ...