All Hansom articles – Page 15

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    Hansom: At your leisure

    2015-01-23T06:00:00Z

    Visit parliament, nuke the Welsh, or kick back on the London Eye with a can of Coca-Cola TM . But don’t expect to visit the Garden Bridge with more than seven chums. Plus, can you understand what our architectural writer is saying?

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    Hansom: From the horse's mouth

    2015-01-16T06:00:00Z

    Real estate investors do battle for Knightsbridge barracks, architects clear their diaries for an exhibition dedicated to working with clients, and Redrow makes a late Bafta entry for best psychological thriller

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    Hansom: Good Dogma! Sit!

    2015-01-09T06:00:00Z

    Worked out your ideological resolutions? There’s a row about ‘-isms’ across the pond, Prince Charles ingratiates himself with architects (as usual), and some old bricks get a new lease of life. Plus, the New Year’s Honours

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    Hansom: The Presents under the tree

    2014-12-19T06:00:00Z

    Hello, children … Were you naughty or nice this year? Let me rummage in my sack and produce some Lego, a load of bikes, a massive train set, and a bottle of whisky. Plus, finally, a policy document that makes sense

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    Hansom: The pre-xmas phrasebook

    2014-12-12T06:00:00Z

    We get into the yuletide spirit with a pantomime, office Christmas parties, festive jumpers, medieval warriors in the fictional land of Westeros, and an ancient kiwi battle dance. Ho ho ho!

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    Hansom: The vanishing

    2014-12-05T06:00:00Z

    This week, everything’s disappearing - BBC Television Centre is poised for part-demolition, Rafael Viñoly drops off the radar, a housing minister fails to materialise, and we relive a £1bn fortune going down the tube

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    Hansom: Hit and miss

    2014-11-28T06:00:00Z

    A former England cricket captain trades in his knee pads for the world of property management, Paddington Bear braves a makeover from Zaha Hadid, and Santa is given the big heave ho-ho-ho

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    Hansom: Losing my religion

    2014-11-21T06:00:00Z

    Atkins and Network Rail endure a marriage of inconvenience, architects splash out on the Guggenheim Helsinki, Canadians pray for Canary Wharf, and all hell breaks loose on the UK’s roads. Plus, Zaha vs Japan

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    Hansom: All Atwitter

    2014-11-14T06:00:00Z

    This week, barely containable excitement at Canary Wharf as the Qataris try to buy up the whole show, things are going nuts at the Cheesegrater, BIM is top trump, and Sir John Soane’s classical Rome is a corker

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    Hansom: Every breath you take

    2014-11-07T06:00:00Z

    London’s Battersea Power Station development gets its first celebrity tenant, a huge game of Monopoly raises a shedload of (real) cash and polystyrene goes the way of Opal Fruits and Marathon bars with a rebrand

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    Hansom: Trick or treat

    2014-10-31T00:00:00Z

    It’s a Halloween special this week: it’s revealed HLM’s chair once played with the living dead (Status Quo), a former ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø cover star meets a terrible fate on the Graham Norton Show, and Frank Gehry gets a bit grisly

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    Hansom: Nothing by halves

    2014-10-24T06:00:00Z

    If you’re building a new HQ, why not divert the canal so it’s nearer to you? Moving a 2.5 tonne sculpture? Get a friendly contractor to shift it. Fundraising for charity? Run up 35 floors of a tower. Doing lunch? Do two

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    Hansom: Known unknowns

    2014-10-17T06:00:00Z

    The year 2014 is an unnerving place - nobody’s sure how many chimneys Battersea Power Station has, Bob the Builder has the face of a child, and an app can summon hordes to your door to devour your leftovers

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    Hansom: How are you feeling?

    2014-10-10T06:00:00Z

    Do you have a ringing in your ears like a siren going off, having trouble saying certain words? Maybe the lastest housing stats are making you feel a little lightheaded? Don’t worry, it’s nothing a cycle on the Thames won’t cure

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    Hansom: Positively negative

    2014-10-03T06:00:00Z

    No one defects to the Tories, a fringe event at Conservative conference fails to impress, the British Aviation Group stays grounded, and the EFA misses a mountain. Plus, construction gets ready to rock

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    Hansom: Dare to be different

    2014-09-26T06:00:00Z

    Sit at home and watch Eastenders if you want - or go watch a melting house, take pictures of a major infrastructure project, design the new Guggenheim, or live in a zero-carbon house for a year. Up to you

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    Hansom: Know the score

    2014-09-19T06:00:00Z

    A US construction giant celebrates the opening of Spartak Moscow’s new football stadium, the Australian prime minister goes to live in the Outback and there’s some sterling charity work being done across the sector

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    Hansom: Plaudits and brickbats

    2014-09-12T06:00:00Z

    There’s a lot to celebrate this week - both at the Holcim Awards in Moscow and at HLM’s 50th. Elsewhere, though, the industry is in the dock and a hideous building gets planning approval in Brum

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    Hansom: Prepare for landing

    2014-09-05T06:00:00Z

    Modelling gets physical (again), the CBI could go either way on airports, Atkins finds a new purpose for aviation technology, Fred Flintstone does a runner - and Isambard Kingdom Brunel quits smoking

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    Hansom: Plastic bricks and mortar

    2014-08-29T00:01:00Z

    Monaco plans to become home to the most expensive apartment in the world, we mark a posthumous birthday for an early pioneer of suspension bridges, and a Lego visitor centre is made out of… you guessed it