All articles by Hansom – Page 3
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Facing up to Crossrail
Crossrail’s Mark Wild is a study in silent self-expression, while HS2 brags about a big day out for football fans
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: 22 Bishopsgate topping-out ceremony
The great and good flock to 22 Bishopsgate’s topping-out ceremony – although one developer is conspicuously absent
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Stop, look and listen
People wonder why a well-known Australian has taken charge of the Crown’s jewels, and the London Assembly is losing several blame games
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: In your own words
People wonder why a well-known Australian has taken charge of the Crown’s jewels, and the London Assembly is losing several blame games
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Who's counting?
Interserve bosses may or may not be quids in, while further down the food chain, workers tell the bean counters how to bring happiness to the workplace
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: That's the way to live
While the new Spurs stadium ups the culinary ante with chilli jam and craft beer-battered tofu, Quintain plants an olive tree that may well be worth its weight in gold
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Bowled over
ISG finds its US owners fail to appreciate a cricket win, and the Danes give the City of London a lesson in how to be cool
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Prize fights
The Ministry of Defence has a territorial dispute with Lendlease, Spurs has grounds for hope, and we go in search of accolades
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Die hard
Why Interserve’s shareholders voted to bury the company is something of a mystery, but at least the coffee was good
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Tough at the top
Costain boss Andrew Wyllie on the possibly delayed Bond Street station and an ex-Crossrail boss suffers the humiliation of a Chris Graying endorsement
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Manners maketh the man
An Osborne director demonstrates the benefits of an expensive education, while City planners practise the art of tight-lipped diplomacy
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Let's make myself clear
Industry experts fail to explain why Northern Powerhouse Rail is nothing like Crossrail, and a housebuilder is less than a builder of homes
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Off the rails
While Crossrail apparently files its accounts by halves, HS2 veers between flooding stakeholder meetings with its staff and charging them to attend at all
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Sites for sore eyes
This week, graffiti-watch from hipster Shoreditch, Redrow’s Steve Morgan is forever blowing bubbles, and ferry-loving Chris Grayling sinks yet further in public esteem
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Winter warmers
This week, a brilliant idea on how to fix HS2’s troubles by moving parliament to Birmingham and a nostalgic look back at a simpler time for marketing
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Class distinctions
Sellar swaps south-east London for upmarket Fitzrovia and a contact rejects a pricey pastime (well, not entirely …)
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: You've got to laugh
Andrew Marr gets the BCO giggling with pseudo-sympathy for the Mays and conductor Simon Rattle goes overboard on the architectural trash talk
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Any progress?
Alinea celebrates good news but the Midland Met hospital saga continues to depress – and things aren’t much better for Crossrail or Spurs
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: We fear change
The Bloomberg building marks climate change with a melting iceberg and fans of brutalism are saddened at a coming demolition
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CommentConstruction industry gossip: Bleak midwinter
Our business minister grapples with some paperwork, a Victorian refurb gets distressed (but in a good way), and, as it’s almost Christmas, we contemplate nuclear extinction