Keeping the tide back
Waves of progress always come crashing in on every product development. They come at a regular pace, just like the sea. In STEENSSEN we...
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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
GOOD VIBES FROM BUZZING BEES
Have you ever wondered about the sound of bees busily at work across a bed of blossoms? The latest buzz from bees is that flowers not...
Judy Huang
Design is the Bridge That Connects Liberty and Equality
People often ask me: what is "design"? Simple answer: "Design" is communication. Let's put it this way: how are the products on the...
Frederick Rickmann
ACTION - for the planet
A plastic violin is a laughable instrument. No-one would take such a thing seriously. The reason is that all the musical instruments that...
Frederick Rickmann
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
Green AIR
It is no bad thing that life will NOT go back to being normal again. Normal was a time of pollution, stressful lifestyles, obesity,...
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 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...
Thinking Urban
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...
Frederick Rickmann
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...
Thinking Urban
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,...
Frederick Rickmann
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...
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