"Hot AIR" is a most appropriate description of the AIR audio system from STEENSSEN. The word "hot" carries many meanings with it and most...

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...

The quotation marks in the title are because I have to admit that I stole the line from an article by Jonathan Margolis in the Guardian....

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...

It’s fascinating to think about the sounds created by the weather. There are the obvious stormy conditions when the wind can howl and the...

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...

You know Nordic Noir. It is that kind of dark Scandinavian crime thriller or whodunnit film that successfully swept across many...

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

I am fascinated by the kind of scientific research projects that examine completely normal things that are plainly obvious to most...

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...

We hear all the time about how technology is moving so fast. However it is worth pondering a little about the fact that the Boeing 747...

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...