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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


The long and winding road - that leads to your door
That old evergreen lyric from Lennon and McCartney seems to describe well the long and winding road that the STEENSSEN NEO XX has been...
Frederick Rickmann


ACTION - we can rock you
It is one of those wonderful paradoxes that the newest technology is often tested in relation to the past. This is certainly true of 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

Disney, Chaplin and sound
Even from the very start of film-making, pioneers realized that sound was a completely essential part of the experience of watching a...
Frederick Rickmann


THE DEAD END OF CAIRO HOUSING
Date: January 13, 2015 By Nehal El-Sherif Cairo is one of the most crowded cities worldwide with an estimated population of 20 million,...
Thinking Urban

Cool AIR
There is a basic truth, isn't there, that if you have to say that something is cool and trendy, then it isn't that anymore. Cool has to...
Frederick Rickmann


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


The new year, teamwork and chains
When a new product sees the light of day, it isn't enough that innovation is centred solely on the product itself. Innovation has to be...
Frederick Rickmann


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


"Hifi is the male equivalent of anti-wrinkle cream"
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....
Frederick Rickmann
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