All articles by Hansom – Page 22
-
CommentHow have the mighty fallen
The bold and the beautiful at Dubai’s latest luxury resort get a nasty shock, a celebrity gardener is rudely excluded and a mathematically minded company boss makes a third blunder
-
-
NewsWhat a stink: sewerage on Palm Island
Dubai's Palm Jumeira will one day have the largest vacuum sewerage system in the world, but in the mean time waste is being dumped in manholes
-
CommentWinter warmers
As the nights draw in, hospitality and goodwill abound, from friendly Swedish engineers, an extremely generous salary offer and a kind invitation to take up residence in a caravan
-
-
NewsAs if one rubber-clad music venue wasn't enough...
Sheffield University's recently unveiled 'Soundhouse' building has a doppelganger residing in Amsterdam
-
CommentTopsy-turvy
Architects get mistaken for moneylenders, engineers try to be journalists and there’s snow on the horizon in Saudi Arabia. All in all, it’s been a rather bizarre week …
-
CommentEat, drink, fall overboard
It’s Cowes again, where gentleman are free to do what gentleman do best – sail close to the wind, sink pontoons, tumble arse-first down hatches and beer-first off the back of boats
-
CommentTime and space
This week’s report from construction’s hidden world tracks down Sunand Prasad and Jarvis Cocker on route to the Arctic, takes the air in Dubai and uncovers a strange transformation in Edinburgh
-
CommentHansom Dancing away the storm
There may be trouble ahead, but while there’s music and moonlight and love and romance, let’s face the music and dance. Alternatively, we could just change our names
-
CommentHansom — summer lovin’
It’s hugs and smiles all around this week (unless you’re a housebuilder, of course), with bosses getting plenty of TLC, fathers learning from daughters, and Boris feeling the wind through his hair
-
CommentHansom — Good sports
The country is in sporting mood, and the construction industry is no exception, cycling, diving and sailing the summer away. Oh, and rescuing some cute little kittens. Aww …
-
CommentAnd the livin’ is easy
It’s summertime, and the industry is rising to the occasion. What would the holiday season be without some natty new shoes, daytime TV and a little bit of summer lovin’ as well?
-
CommentHansom: things can only get bitter
Disappointment all round this week as Christmas parties are called off, summer parties downgraded, guests turn up to wait in endless queues and some escape to Mongolia in whatever they can afford
-
CommentYou thought things were bad
This week, we paint a vision of a dystopian future – a world in which journalists are politicians, the credit crunch ends in murderous pillage and the word ‘Olympics’ may not be spoken …
-
CommentHansom: curiouser and curiouser
As the economic world disappears down the rabbit hole, we find ourselves in a strange land where no email is quite as it seems, consultants befriend barn owls and masked builders roam the Orient
-
CommentOoh matron!
Despite the gloom, the industry has been Carrying On, thanks to some deliciously wobbly desserts and some naughty business in a public park
-
CommentHansom: Spooky
Lovesick phantoms, a paranormal ability to rewrite the past and a man who can talk to the animals (to the animals) – recently, construction has been getting decidedly weird
-
CommentHansom: uncomfortable moments
Awkward questions are raised at a government press conference, Barratt’s staff decide against keeping a low profile and Murray Coleman wears pink lycra
-
CommentJust desserts
Bouygues gets its own back on your diarist, BCO delegates take delight in Gordon Brown’s travails, and Lord Foster pours his considerable talent into making a really splendid jelly