All Hansom articles – Page 34
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CommentGroovy times
We score some primo grass this week and, between bursts of coughing, drink enough booze to hospitalise ourselves before strapping on an axe and delivering a child. Alright. Yeah. Baby.
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CommentKing Richard
Introducing the all-conquering Lord Rogers of Riverside: Pritzker prize-winning architect, confidante to the rich and powerful and, of course, would-be sexologist
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CommentHappy as a herring
More zany fun with Britain’s most surreal industry, which this week tries to sell a chief executive while carting around a 12m mechanical plant and coaxing John Prescott out of that broom cupboard
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CommentAction heroes
As Wembley succumbs to marauding zombies, we check on the whereabouts of the Taekwondo Kid and Ray Winstone, and ponder whether Gordon Brown will be architects’ knight in shining armour
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CommentThe youth of today
While the industry’s old hands said adieu to Paul Morrell and discussed sustainable construction, the youngsters were engaged in a drunken debauch at the Marriott. Who said QSs don’t know how to party?
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CommentUnsupervised
While the upper echelons were attending high-profile weddings and the awards, those in the lower pay grades were free to fit solar panels facing the wrong way and misinterpret design instructions ...
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CommentA curse upon ye
Scottish builders jinx Wembley by burying tartan scarves under the pitch, while Vernon Kay is forced to field hate mail from sensitive scaffolders. At least the Housing Corporation enjoyed a bit of luck ...
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CommentThe waste land
The Home Office invests in some lovely offices in the middle of nowhere that will be closed most of the time, a ‘sorry’ state of affairs at the ODA, and cloning seems to apply to Shepherds as well as sheep
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CommentHansom Ripping yarns
A spell-binding 348-page account of PFI standardisation, the equally long-running saga of David Cameron’s home improvements and a rather jolly chinwag with the Tory MEP for Gibraltar
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CommentKermit’s revenge
The latest news from the tourist hotspots of Kazakhstan, Arizona and St Helena this week, all deftly mixed in with Gyles Brandreth, Kermit the Frog and the opening of Wembley stadium
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CommentMipim uncovered
Ah, the glamour of the Riviera ... long-legged Russian beauties, a daring daylight robbery and, erm, that’s about it – unless you count middle-aged male nudity or the stand from Corby council
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CommentParty poopers
Multiplex boss Martin Tidd misses his own bash, while Richard Steer travels half way around the world to attend one he doesn’t want to. Thank goodness Geoff Irvine knows how to celebrate
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CommentFighting fit
Ray O’Rourke stirs up Anglo-Irish rivalry, Building defends itself in court and Gardiner & Theobald’s QSs battle to be the ultimate bridge-building champions – all to a backdrop of classical music ...
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CommentAncient customs
Building revives the debating forums of the great civilisations, a housebuilding boss demonstrates a keen grasp of hieroglyphics, and a Chinese dragon blocks the way to the bar
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CommentHansom Mixed emotions
Anger and confusion reign at the Lighthouse Club, boredom (with the merest threat of violence) pervades a Bovis networking event and a whole lot of cheekiness takes place in a hotel car park
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CommentHansom Romantic interlude
The mating season is here again, so let’s enjoy the gorgeous sight of architects displaying to clients while headhunters feather their nests and Ken Livingstone bangs heads with the French
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CommentDistinctly average
Below par performances this week from the officials at the TCC and a Scottish recruitment consultant. At least Mace’s attempts to join the celebrity party circuit are more than OK...
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CommentHow curious
This week we try to work out the thinking behind Richard Simmons’ eloquent attack on the motion he was supporting, EC Harris’ coffee policy and MPs’ mourning of Rick Stein’s dead dog