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STREET ART AT A CROSSROAD
Long gone are the days when street art was synonymous with graffiti and condemned as vandalism. A new group of people who identify...
Frederick Rickmann


設計是改善人類社會、促進自由平等的重要推手 Design is the Bridge That Connects Liberty and Equality
經常有人問我:「設計」是什麼? 簡單的回答:「設計」就是溝通。 這麼說吧:市面上銷售的商品是怎麼樣被製造出來的呢? 假設有一個人想要創業賣一件商品,他找了個工業設計師來並把這個點子告訴他,這時工業設計師聆聽客戶(創業家)的需求後,以其專業的設計思維結合大量生產的工程概念、充...
Judy Huang


DUNDEE AT CROSSROADS
Date: September 30, 2015 By Frederick Rickmann Situated on the north bank of the River Tay in Scotland, the city of Dundee has probably...
Frederick Rickmann


CREATIVE COURTYARDS
Berlin is one of the most dynamic of world cities. The core is a high density urban environment. It is formed into city blocks and the...
Frederick Rickmann


EGYPT’S NEW PLANS FOR DECENTRALIZATION
Date: January 19, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many...
Thinking Urban


Moray Place in Edinburgh
There are few cities in the world that have managed to create such an incredibly well functioning and harmonic city environment. All...
Frederick Rickmann


WHEN IT RAINS IN CAIRO
Date: January 5, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif It rarely rains in Cairo. In the last days of November, it rained for less than 30 minutes for...
Thinking Urban


How many new towns have that?
This is not Hallstadt am See in Austria. It is Hallstadt See, the Chinese rip off of the Austrian village. A true copy in southern China...
Frederick Rickmann


Gamla Stan, Stockholm
You walk down the street. It's a cloudless day. The air is crisp. The sky is so blue that it is bordering on indigo. Then you get that...
Frederick Rickmann


Colour in Taipei
Liberty Square in Taipei is quintessentially oriental. Also quintessentially euphemistic. The monumental Democracy Stairway on the right...
Frederick Rickmann

BRUTAL CONCRETE AND GREEN TEA
Date: June 3, 2015 By Frederick Rickmann Renewing our cities can take really many forms. Old buildings can be torn down and some of the...
Frederick Rickmann


This used to be one of the main streets in Bangkok.
A bit too heavy-handed for a light transport system. Today we have a generation of architects that have seen their own work torn down...
Frederick Rickmann
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