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CommentHansom: Just plain silly
Fun and games this week as we visit brutalist playgrounds and consider Cambridge university鈥檚 professorship of play - plus, creepy crawlies, open seas, and a plea for nonsensical projects
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CommentHansom: Nature鈥檚 bounty
A good week for bees, areas of outstanding cooking and dilapidated Victorian villas, but DIY skills are on the wane and the Garden Bridge is wilting - as, apparently, are those who spot hunky builders working onsite
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CommentHansom: Feeling romantic...?
Well stop - the Paris authorities want none of it. So instead of a city break you could try losing yourself in a debut novel, or perhaps the open road is more your passion - we鈥檇 just suggest you opt for an electric car
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CommentHansom: Darling, you were fabulous
Gurkhas, thesps and other fans of the great Joanna Lumley will be thrilled to see her gracing these pages this week, while the rest of us make do with unexploded bombs, 180km cycle rides and free PR advice
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CommentHansom: Parties and politics
The anti-Garden Bridge brigade phone it in, RIBA gets theatrical in an ex-Shed, Prince Charles鈥� fears about fish are published, and someone has to pay at Balfour Beatty. Plus, Make parks itself in its new studio
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CommentHansom: Ups and downs
This week, London property moguls and an arts executive consider their respective fortunes under a Tory government, while others escape politics by embracing the virtual world and life at high altitude
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CommentHansom: Polling booth blues
An election week special is soon diverted to more intriguing matter, including Man City footballers seeking solace on a construction site, mixed-reality headsets and what RMJM鈥檚 office building did next
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Archive TitlesHansom: Follies galore
This week, the builder of a mock-Tudor castle prepares to move into demolition, a petition is launched for a duck, Network Rail gives us the willies, and election excitement reaches fever pitch as politicians dig a hole
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CommentHansom: Reasons to be cheerful
Happiness has broken out on the UK鈥檚 building sites, it seems (are they putting something in the tea?). Plus, tall towers, oversized sculptures, fantasy drama and Iain Duncan Smith. Happy?
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CommentHansom: Digging deep
This week sees an industry mired in conflict and charity, as a warrior against the Garden Bridge takes a break, Tory donors swell Cameron鈥檚 war chest, Osborne does a good deed, and Costain enters the Dragons鈥� Den
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CommentHansom: The weird and wonderful
Things take a turn for the strange this week. The Serpentine鈥檚 summer pavilion dabbles in psychedelia, a national memorial centre is shaped like a Spitfire, and Boris Johnson can be found tunnelling underneath London
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CommentHansom: The young ones
This week, how watching telly can inspire the next generation of construction workers; northern youth marches south; an octogenarian architect is unstoppable; and the chancellor contemplates a career change
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CommentHansom: Party poopers
Mipim was as varied as a pack of liquorice allsorts this year with delegates from far-flung corners of the world such as Dagenham imbuing the fair with fun-filled exoticism - all the more puzzling that some failed to show
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NewsHansom: Virtual realities
Exploring alternative planes of existence, there鈥檚 Alastair Campbell at Ecobuild, Mipim by bike, bat warnings, and building structures in a 3D procedurally generated world. More mundanely, there鈥檚 stamps and Lego
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CommentHansom: No brainers
Lots of bright ideas this week: a skyscraper made of wood, relocating parliament to Hull, prolonging Euston Station鈥檚 life and a lycra-testing cycle ride to Cannes. Plus, we learn that the Walkie Talkie can whistle too
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CommentHansom: It's a size thing
News from contracting鈥檚 big beasts, an estate agent鈥檚 imaginative reworking of geography, Washington is taken down a peg or two (as is a former RIBA president) - plus, it鈥檚 true, our readers really are getting younger
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CommentHansom: Grey matter
Those whose sexual preferences lean towards concrete will be excited by this week鈥檚 offerings - the rest of us will have to make do with more cerebral ruminations on the intersection between life, art and fog
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CommentHansom: Going underground
Good news for fans of transport infrastructure - this week鈥檚 tattle has plenty to get your motor running, including tube line cycleways, haunted rail stations, and a bid to bring beauty to Britain鈥檚 roads. Yes, roads
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CommentHansom: The wheat from the chaff
Baking infiltrates 黑洞社区 this week as a former Great British Bake Off contestant quizzes the Federation of Master Builders construction panel, and a Buckinghamshire brickmaker wins over a Japanese bakery
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CommentHansom: No double-speak here
No (more) news at Balfour Beatty, no one dislikes Boris, and buying yourself a railway line to run around your mansion isn鈥檛 an insane overindulgence. Plus, the Scottish health secretary sets a bad example