Architect by day, dead bird retriever by dawn: this New York City Audubon volunteer is part of a team that has collected and bagged 6,000 dead birdies since 2007 in an appeal for certain high-rise buildings to institute bird safety measures on their glass facades. The group approximates that some 90,000 birds are killed each year by flying into glass walls, like those at The Met, the World Financial Center and the Time Warner Center. On the flip side, FXFowle (because, of course) has voluntarily designed "retrofitting [with] less reflective glass and a dot pattern" for its renovation of the Javits Convention Center. [NYT]
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