All Hansom articles – Page 25
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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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Hansom: Crackers, anyone?
Christmas is always a real challenge for this column - how to reconcile the season of goodwill with our irrepressible satirical tendencies? Move over Santa …
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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: That’s entertainment
On show this week: posh parties at the Lord Mayor’s pad, political theatrics in Westminster and unexpected revelations about the Olympics; plus rural folk revive the ’keep off my land’ routine
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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: Spin doctors
It’s all about image this week, as the government commiserates with the people, HOK tries to quash rumours and Gerald Ronson turns out not to be the lovable, big-hearted old softie we thought he was
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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: Everything in its place
Sticklers for detail are thick on the ground this week: billionaire property owners insisting their wires are not crossed, the company that won’t be called a contractor and a ferocious fight for a full stop
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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: Under cover
Our usual quest to stick our noses into the private business of others takes us from the corridors of power at the RICS to a private betting circle, pausing briefly to admire some tugs in Afghanistan
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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: The end is nigh
This week, we contemplate our mortality in the form of moribund school programmes, vanishing staff, and Brits making their final exit from the Middle East … meanwhile, death stalks the Euston Road
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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