All articles by Hansom – Page 11
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CommentHansom: Drying up
This week, Ed Balls reminisces about Labour’s ‘zero homes’ policy, a Building columnist faces every public speaker’s worst nightmare, and EC Harris is (temporarily) off the sauce
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CommentHansom: On and off the field
World Cup fever and a spot of rain hit Doha (but no sign of Zaha Hadid), London’s Emirates Air Line is spurned, structural engineers are deaf to opera, and the FT tries to keep up
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CommentHansom: Getting physical
This week, we bust our guts at Hackney’s Boxing Academy, get our tongues in an acronymic twist, put our foot down on bottoms, and get our rocks off with construction’s finest bands
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CommentHansom: Mixed messages
Digby Jones’ scintillating wit and Boris Johnson’s world-famous joke repertoire both go over the heads of the Chinese, talent gets shoved aside in a government reshuffle and Guildford’s PR exercise goes awry
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CommentHansom: Holding forth
There have been an awful lot of speeches this week - some of them more missable than others - but few have understood that the true art of public speaking is to say nothing but to say it very well
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CommentHansom: Guys and dolls
We compare chainsaws and sexual athletics, watch architects play with dolls houses, consider implications of the solar death ray incident, and ask the big question - are trained cats the future for the nuclear sector?
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CommentHansom: And the livin' is easy
The tranquility of summer days is disturbed by a trouser scandal that has rocked the world of architecture, and the Chinese authorities clamping down on self-build - but happily, there’s a boring story to end on
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FeaturesHalcyon days of yore
Hansom remembers some of the best industry gossip over the last five decades including a Bovis party in 1975, a parachute-jumping QS and a fervent timeshare pitch
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FeaturesHansom: Reincarnations
We look at the Building of yesteryear, welcome Anthony Bamford to the Lords, watch George Ferguson defend his red trousers, imagine fisticuffs with Ed Davey, and consider an alternative use for scaffolding
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CommentHansom: Religious experiences
Prepare for a week of the sacred and the profane as we have some interesting times in Heathrow Terminal 2B, think on yesteryear’s architectural wonders, and see the NHF recruit the Archbishop of Canterbury
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CommentHansom: Down to earth
China’s 883m Sky City tower guarantees residents high living, but it’s more lowly schemes in Greenwich and Millwall that have converted the developers themselves. Plus, a prince is born!
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CommentHansom: Ups and downs
There’s an artificial indoor beach in China, posthumous RICS membership for one of our great scientific minds, some architects ride back into town, and why coming down can be harder than going up
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CommentHansom: I second that emotion
This week, there’s panic on a government design framework, puzzlement over Zaha Hadid’s latest design and piqued curiosity as the wife of a sixties soul legend encounters a bearded Peter Murray
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CommentHansom: Let's go geographical
As the planning minister clashes with the countryside, the construction adviser hangs out in a field, the energy minister contemplates the Green Deal desert, and Davis Langdon moves further from a mountain
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CommentHansom: All ears
David Cameron (the waxwork version) gets an earful and the listening bank makes a reappearance while Man United-supporting Bam workers turn a deaf ear to the no football shirt rules
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CommentHansom: Coming clean
Honesty seems to be the favoured policy this week, which leads to some surprising sales pitches. I, meanwhile, plan to take to the high seas (or, at least, a North London reservoir)
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CommentHansom: You're bard
It’s a week of drama again for construction, full of joyous celebrations, a race to get a document ready, a wandering fox and both a reality TV star and our esteemed chancellor working up a sweat
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CommentHansom: Name that tune
There’s a live performance from the Town and Country Planning Association, a former QS faculty chair at RICS makes a comeback (in Coventry), and is the government still on-song with its Part L plans?
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CommentHansom: Location, location
Bristol dons red trousers, RTKL treasures its view of St Paul’s cathedral, Scotland flexes its economic muscles, and some surveyors find their way to the kitchen
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CommentHansom: Performance tips
A trip to Madrid proves thirsty work for the great and good of the UK office industry, Greg Barker forgets diplomacy, and an old fashioned protest song