top of page
Search


Thinking Urban
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...


Frederick Rickmann
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
CREATING TOMORROW'S URBAN SPACES THROUGH CULTURE AND ART
Date: April 17, 2015 Rethinking urban spaces has been the focus of UrbanLab - an urban development initiative undertaken by 8 Danish...


70MEDiA
BLUE is the way to GREEN
"BLUE and other shapes 2" is a book that really makes you think about how we live in cities. As the title implies, the book is the...


Frederick Rickmann
Modern patterns yet ancient details in Kyoto
#ModernPatterns #AncientDetails #Kyoto #Japan #CultureAndDesign #TheGreenGoodDesignAward #iFDesignAward #SDGTechAward #SkiftIDEAAward...


Frederick Rickmann
ARCHITECTURAL PARADOX
Throughout Europe, the 60's and the 70's saw a rapid expansion of residential building. In Scandinavia as in most other countries, some...


Frederick Rickmann
THE FAILURE OF CITY PLANNING
This desert of rubble was photographed in 2014. It’s the place where I grew up, lived with my family, played with the kids in the...


Frederick Rickmann
Champagne Flowing
It's an old tradition we have that goes way back. Everytime we get a significant design award, we crack open a bottle of bubbly. This...
bottom of page