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CommentHansom: What the dickens?
This week, we have a colourful tale of giant chimneys, a certain shade of the colour blue, ever-more absurd house prices, a modern mausoleum and some excellent exploits in aid of the less fortunate
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CommentHansom: It鈥檚 the surreal thing
This week, a gobsmackingly pricey home, students of today aren鈥檛 what they used to be, chamber music at City Hall, British Land goes walkies, and Holiday Inn guests get to sleep in shipping containers
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CommentHansom: Gargoyles and grotesques
Chelsea vs Spurs compete for your attention this week 鈥� plus, it鈥檚 journey鈥檚 end for a 1926 signalling cabin, we get ready for Construction Rocks and Boris Johnson gives us a fright (possibly not for the last time)
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CommentHansom: Behind the scenes
This week, Pok茅mon Go players are shown the door (again), Manchester City鈥檚 glass tunnel raises hackles, John Laing remembers the trouble with PFI, there鈥檚 a dispute about bricks and we all go to the opera
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CommentHansom: Curtain calls
HS2 is buying a forest, a director鈥檚 daughter wants to save Kensington Odeon, the EFA head of capital cuts his hair off, and an architect finds fame on the soccer field. Plus, construction wakes up to its Poke虂mon problem
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CommentHansom: Dishing the dirt
It鈥檚 not that we鈥檝e got it in for the Rio Olympics but things didn鈥檛 get off to a glitch-free start. At least there鈥檚 good news from the world of cement, a harebrained transport idea could just fly, and Northerners come clean
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CommentHansom: Relationship counselling
The nuclear community goes hungry, Keller explains the concept of time, HS2 anticipates complaints, some 鈥榗oncept鈥� artists invite you to sleep en plein air, and Derwent and ISG can鈥檛 stop giving. Plus, Mrs Trump makes a boo-boo 鈥�
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NewsHansom: Points of view
This week, Heathrow observes its architects up close, an ugly building is looked at from a new perspective, Brighton鈥檚 seashore and Sydney鈥檚 waterfront enjoy new panoramas, and we get a fresh angle on Europe
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CommentHansom: Clearing the decks
This week, politicians shed more heat than light at the House of Lords, Whitehall gets the jitters, the Department of Energy and Climate Change gets wind of its demise and London has one less Pole
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CommentHansom: Going up in the world
Despite crashing markets, many things are on the rise, from the social climbers at The Ivy, to house prices for Europhiles, the appeal of upping sticks for New Zealand, and a really massive pile of cous cous
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CommentHansom: Corridors of power
This week, the industry considers the legacy of Boris Johnson, eyes a career serving a khaleesi, props up the bar in the Commons and treads in the footsteps of Winston Churchill
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CommentHansom: Golly, is that the time?
This week, the past is dug up and pored over, we dance and boat race our way to the present, then bury the present back into the ground in the hope that one day it is discovered by the future
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FeaturesHansom: Rule, Britannia
As the nation decides whether or not to bind its destiny to Europe鈥檚, we are reminded of the strength of our territorial loyalties - be that to our nation, our home town - or to the desk we鈥檙e given to sit at 鈥�
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CommentHansom: That's entertainment
We鈥檙e having a good time this week cheering in Prague, on a computer in Slough, whizzing around on a multidirectional lift and China鈥檚 biggest rollercoaster. It鈥檚 a tube poster that got our subs giggling, though
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CommentHansom: The spirit world
This week, a heady cocktail of London digs, youth training schemes, celebratory relays for those who built the London Olympics, Mitie鈥檚 new surveying tool, hot air balloons and a huge gin distillery
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CommentHansom: A right brouhaha
This week, workers are left red faced by a builder鈥檚 crack, a developer takes the uncertainty out of the EU vote, Black Cab drivers proffer a rare opinion, and a nightclub makes a hullabaloo about development plans
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CommentHansom: Power games
Football and politics weave in as Greg Dyke tries to tackle Sadiq Khan鈥檚 (shrinking) housing targets, Leicester is (still) celebrating, Gatwick strengthens its defence and New York remembers thinking big. Plus, Torytubbie energy policy
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CommentHansom: The History boys
Khan looks back at his predecessor鈥檚 record, two museums cause bidding wars (of different sorts), some politicos put aside old quarrels and there鈥檚 more history than we can dig up. Plus, Robert De Niro鈥檚 waiting (to open a hotel)
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CommentHansom: The need for speed
Among the travels and travails this week, the Cheesegrater lifts, an on-the-go minister, van-based job ads, a ban on holiday homes and Boris Johnson riding into the sunset. Plus, HS2 blocked by hedgehogs
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CommentHansom: As time goes by
Tempus fugit, as Virgil said, or in other words, the clock is ticking, though in Big Ben鈥檚 case, not for long, it seems - mind you, 5,000 years ago they only had the sun to go by (thank goodness, that鈥檚 still going)