All Hansom articles – Page 8
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CommentHansom: Sharp words
Interserve chief Debbie White counters the verbal jabs of government with understatement, while even a toddler can see the lack of progress on a road upgrade
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CommentHansom: Breaking news
Haringey should take a look at Croydon to see how long it takes to build homes and there’s yet more bad news for Carillion employees
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CommentHansom: Mind your language
While Taylor Wimpey takes to literature to win over the nation’s youth to the construction cause, some people just need to wash their mouths out
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CommentHansom: Crazy for you
A Ferris wheel causes a little too much excitement, and a new book reveals the psychopathic secrets of chief executives’ success
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CommentHansom: It’s all in the timing
Carillion’s former finance boss is recognised for his judicious timing, while Willmott Dixon’s snapper captures just the right moment (smile!)
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CommentHansom: All directions
Jeremy Corbyn ventures southwards while HS2 mixes up England and Scotland and a New York seller is resorting to launching customers into space to flog flats
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CommentHansom: Funny business
Interserve’s finance director is good for a laugh – and the share price deal he got for himself certainly gives him something to smile about
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CommentHansom: Identity issues
Voltaire gets confused with Spider-Man, site hoardings sport mystery monikers in place of logos, and a minister almost dives headfirst into a – luckily only virtual – road that he’d mistaken for a swimming pool
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CommentHansom: The way things were
Ah, the olden days, when you could buy a house for £9 a week – and get planning permission to build one in less than eight weeks. This week, it’s all about nostalgia
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CommentHansom: Straight to the point
This week: sky-high asking prices at Centre Point, an enigmatic Libeskind video, and rail strikes make Parisians go green
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CommentHansom: Ground control
This week: dodgy moves for tackling the pay gap, Battersea Power Station lowers its profile, Hoover makes a clean sweep, and an old home finally bites the dust
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CommentHansom: Paxman-style tactics
For once I get the chance to use the phrase ‘health and safety gone mad’ justly, gender pay gap figures bring up unsaid questions and Interserve’s chief exec races against time
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CommentHansom: Finding the right words
There’s a bit of confusion over Al Pacino, the large crowd expected at Persimmon’s AGM could leave directors struggling for explanation, and an MP practises straight talking
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CommentHansom: Thinking it over
This week, Crest Nicholson ponders the future of a mulberry tree and the cost of a Mipim stand makes you want to sit down
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CommentHansom: Lofty visions
This week, I examine a sky forest in Vietnam, a German charity takes the moral high ground with a friendly gesture and the MoA has a delicious idea
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CommentHansom: Good intentions
This week, a diversity day at British Land, a record charity haul at the Building Award and Cemex’s new boss takes an ethical tour of London
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CommentHansom: Competition winners
The Stirling prize victor is announced, Arsenal and Spurs are locked in a contest to be the biggest and Cemex deserves a prize for its efforts to protect cyclists on the roads
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CommentHansom: Relationship counselling
This week there’s an invitation to Jean Nouvel’s Abu Dhabi Louvre, tales of romance from RSHP, and a mysterious career move
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CommentHansom: Nagging worries
Long-running problems mean nothing is going quite as it should – the V A Dundee is impressive but also impressively over budget, and Interserve runs into fresh trouble
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CommentHansom: Rock on
BIM-hating zombies lose the battle for the industry’s best rock band, plus the pain of legacy contracts, financial investigations and burst appendices