All articles by Hansom – Page 17
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This week’s theme is ’caution’. From a cash-happy economist, to pillow-throwing protestors, to the RICS’ attempts to cash in on water, my advice is: count to 10 before making hasty decisions
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CommentHansom: Slip and slide
As top brass at the NHBC glides across the dancefloor, Davis Langdon and Aecom’s romance is in decline and one QS can give you a little too much information about the dangers of wet boat decks
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CommentHansom: Winter blues
Unfortunately the festive break was somewhat marred by debt delivery problems and party-pooping snow, but at least we’ve had Building’s Christmas single to sing (and laugh) along to..
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CommentHansom: Building with the stars
It’s all glitz and glamour for construction this week, as it takes a whirl on Strictly, scores celebrity autographs at an awards event, and - stop press! - creates its very own Christmas single
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CommentHansom: Look over there!
Distractions abound in the industry this week, from executive toys in Rok’s offices, elusive bosses, misplacing a wind farm and a handy suggestion for the Irish government’s PR team
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CommentHansom: Hue and cry
Modern classicism shows its colours (anything you like as long as it’s white), while those who should be blushing a beautiful shade of pink include Cabe, Jarvis, and, ahem, a few of our colleagues
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CommentHansom: Stage whispers
The industry finds itself this week examining vaunting ambition, coming a cropper over a letter and witnessing an epic battle - clearly it’s not only a young Michael Gove who enjoyed Shakespeare
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CommentHansom: For one week only!
Roll up, roll up … see the strong man lift the BSF bid document using only two transit vans! See Mr Memory forget his own policies! And, of course, we have beautiful buildings … totally nude!
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CommentHansom: Strange days indeed
Nothing is as it seems this week, what with resurrected chief executives turning up at race courses, bestiality taking place in the workplace and well-known architects running away to sea
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CommentHansom: Tough sells
The Conservative housing minister at the Lib Dem party conference, a strangely familiar ’iconic’ development in Dubai and a super-luxe London apartment with its own secret tunnel
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CommentHansom: Leaping lizards
There’s much hurling this week as industry leaders chuck themselves off buildings, press officers throw themselves into their work and Ann Widdecombe launches herself into the highland fling
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CommentHansom: Move over Sherlock
Building’s supersleuth uncovers the truth behind celebrity interviews, appeals for help in identifying a missing person, tails the RICS/QS row and meets a double murderer
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CommentHansom: The spice of life
Suspicious goings-on in the bedroom, recalcitrant plumbing in an ancient loo, growing pains at the Olympics and the case of the disappearing numbers - you can’t say we don’t bring you variety
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CommentHansom headaches
This week, there’s a spot of mild concussion for a housebuilder’s chairman, some trouble with the clientele at a fashionable Highbury eatery, and Paul Morrell turns the volume up to 11
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CommentHansom: The guest list
David Beckham, Annie Lennox and Jay-Z hotfoot it to the Metropole, Mr Bill Ding has an appointment at the magistrates’ court and the communities department invites charges of hypocrisy
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CommentHansom: Rave on
Now the sun’s out, everyone’s up for a good time, whether it’s a Wild Sex Party, a boat party, or John Dodds’ one-man, one-vote Lie Around In The Sun All Summer Party
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CommentHansom: Turf wars
While a fishmonger and a newt-fancier fight over a scrap of east London, a trip to the races proves a right royal to-do and the new housing minister gets slapped down by the Treasury
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CommentHansom: Pomp and circumstance
While architects have had a jolly time parading in period dress and tucking into sumptuous desserts, it’s been a week of rotten luck for democracy, Capita Symonds and a soccer squad or two
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Hansom: All or nothing
While Prince Charles bemoans Western society and the HCA brings back prohibition, one architectural practice is virtually bathing in booze and the World Cup is, frankly, getting out of hand
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CommentHansom: Sporting chances
The industry is getting in shape, with directors tackling the high jump, architects cycling through time, Boris jogging and islanders getting ready for a long swim. And some soccer tournament, apparently