All Hansom articles – Page 22
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CommentHansom: Taking the Mickey
This week, Disney turns out to be a surprise authority on BIM, the timber debate goes Transatlantic, a second Atkins employee carries the Olympic torch forward and, last but not least, the Gherkin collapses
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CommentHansom: Liberté, égalité, fraternité
This week, has François Hollande saved the Hinkley Point nuclear project? Plus, the NFB builds bridges, Gleeds’ Richard Steer considers a career as a lifeguard and some (relatively) positive press for Grant Shapps
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CommentHansom: Doubling up
This week, the long-awaited Kanye West/OMA collaboration, the white heat of technology at the BCO conference and a Godzilla-sized image of the House of Windsor looms over London
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CommentHansom: Break out the canapes
This week, Make’s Ken Shuttleworth puts on a good spread, RIBA throws a party at the V&A, energy minister Greg Barker gets told off, and a terrible odour reaches Building Towers
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CommentHansom: All's fair in love and war
This week, architects strike back at the Olympic marketing rules, the Queen’s Speech is yet another repeat, One World Trade Center comes up short and Eros gets a little tlc
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CommentHansom: Capital gains
The pricey apartments at the Shard have many USPs, but are transport links really the clincher? Meanwhile Sweett is sour over lifts and work of a kind begins at Blackfriars One, but don’t get too excited
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CommentHansom: Critical condition
It’s all a bit confrontational this week as Giles Coren offers his opinion on the Shard and David Lock takes on Nick Raynsford… let’s hope Sir John Armitt finds more satisfaction in his role as wedding planner
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CommentHansom: Bit of a cover-up
From the site hoardings obscured by topiary to the 2012 Sir John Armitt swimsuit calendar, this column wonders when it’s best to keep some things under wraps …
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CommentHansom: In it to win it
This week, Crossrail has some fighting talk for Bam Nuttall, West Ham’s owners get excited about their Olympic stadium bid and Foster’s team battles more opposition in its quest for a South-east airport
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CommentHansom: Life's rich tapestry
This week, a construction site is stopped in its tracks by a shoal of fish, we expose the harsh realities of hotdesking, and gain an insight into the formative (target-driven) years of Davis Langdon’s Bob Pell
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CommentHansom: Seize the day
Whether you’re playing on your phone during a conference, making the best of a political crisis, stalking a stranger to their home or cycling to Manchester, this is a week for throwing caution to the wind
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CommentHansom: Here, there and everywhere
Ecobuild was hectic from the get-go - what with having to make sure none of the Lego pandas escaped and soothing hurt feelings from a damning tweet - some didn’t even let up in their leisure time
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CommentHansom: Use your assets
This week, a high-vis clothing firm enlists the help of a former Ecuador president, an architecture boss hopes animal behaviour will help her win The Apprentice, and the Energy Saving Trust generates heat
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CommentHansom: When in Cannes
Eurostar travellers arrived at this year’s Mipim event - after an extended journey - hungry and peeved
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CommentHansom: We happy few
It’s a good news week with tales of a chuffed chief exec, punctual projects, a royal baking challenge and a party for the lucky teams that made it onto the exclusive Building Awards shortlist
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CommentHansom: Tech savvy
Isn’t technology incredible? We can heat swimming pools with crematoriums, build lifts that go into space … and yet there’s still no way to recall an inadvertently sent email, as two architects found out
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CommentHansom: Peace breaks out
This week we witness the calm streets of Bogotá after the colourful student protests, while Balfour Beatty Engineering Services pulls back from the brink to negotiate with picketing electricians
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FeaturesHansom: Trouble at the top
As the two-way (un)popularity contest continues in the Cabinet, construction’s main man pats the industry on the head and a sustainability expert calls for the chancellor to get his cheque book out
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FeaturesHansom: It's tough at the top
Power comes at a price, and this week Whitehall bosses fall out of favour with officials, a council leader is driven to delivering an insulting speech and Prince Charles’ PR machine has a mind of its own
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CommentHansom: Bothered & bewildered
It’s been a confusing week with a Twitter campaign being hijacked by teenagers, a secretive networking club publishing the names of its own members and listening to Kirstie Allsopp’s deep thoughts