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The White House - windows of opportunity

As an architect, I always wanted glass to be glass. Windows should be more like transparent walls, rather than holes in a wall and that...

Frederick Rickmann

Cultural Sustainability

The societies which thrive best are the ones where the strengths of the past are brought together with the growth of the new parts of the...

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

Corona and the new shape of cities

Quite suddenly, under the corona crisis, our city streets have been rediscovered. Traffic has vanished in the lock-downs and people have...

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

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

DUNDEE AT CROSSROADS

Situated on the north bank of the River Tay in Scotland, the city of Dundee has probably one of the most attractive urban locations in...

Frederick Rickmann

EGYPT’S NEW PLANS FOR DECENTRALIZATION

By Nehal El-Sherif Numerous governments have tried to re-arrange Cairo’s urban planning by getting rid of many buildings built illegally,...

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

THE DEAD END OF CAIRO HOUSING

By Nehal El-Sherif Cairo is one of the most crowded cities worldwide with an estimated population of 20 million, so there is less and...

Frederick Rickmann

WHEN IT RAINS IN CAIRO

By Nehal El-Sherif It rarely rains in Cairo. In the last days of November, it rained for less than 30 minutes for the first time after a...

Frederick Rickmann

BRUTAL CONCRETE AND GREEN TEA

Renewing our cities can take really many forms. Old buildings can be torn down and some of the more outstanding ones can be rebuilt....

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