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Hansom: When the wind blows

2013-11-01T06:00:00Z

While St Jude brings both a wind turbine and Nick Clegg to a halt, and an Italian architect fills a Shanghai office with bubbles, there’s still time for a moment of quiet reflection in the Staffordshire countryside

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Hansom: Diplomatic relations

2013-10-25T06:00:00Z

This week: mixed reactions to the French going nuclear in Somerset; there are harsh words over a Palace; Berkeley learns to keep its views to itself; plus an update on Google’s plans to rule the world

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Hansom: Getting physical

2013-10-18T00:00:00Z

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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Hansom: Mixed messages

2013-10-11T00:00:00Z

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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Hansom: Once upon a time...

2013-10-04T06:00:00Z

This week’s unlikely fables include bringing the house down, a fantastic (unbuilt) tower, and a world of fun and laughter (in a bank). But will it be a fairy tale ending for young Nick Boles?

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Hansom: Peaks and troughs

2013-09-27T06:00:00Z

This week, start at the summit of Kilimanjaro, then work your way down to a surreal tea party and Romanian TV. You’ll have reached the bottom when you find yourself at a party conference

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Hansom: Holding forth

2013-09-20T00:00:00Z

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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Hansom: Guys and dolls

2013-09-13T06:00:00Z

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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Hansom: All very wearing

2013-09-06T06:00:00Z

A diplomatic spat puts building work on hold and delays to online national planning guidance bemuse eager developers; Lara Croft is bundled into Farringdon - plus, (surely?) the last ever red trousers story

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Hansom: Recognising greatness

2013-08-30T06:00:00Z

A great feat of Scottish engineering is honoured, Bam does a lot of good work for charity, a US design practice prints a pavilion, and there’s the latest in a long line of hilarious building-shaped confectioneries

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Hansom: And the livin' is easy

2013-08-23T00:00:00Z

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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Halcyon days of yore

2013-08-15T15:00:00Z

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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Hansom: Reincarnations

2013-08-09T00:00:00Z

We look at the ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø 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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Hansom: Religious experiences

2013-08-02T06:00:00Z

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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Hansom: Down to earth

2013-07-26T00:00:00Z

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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Hansom: Ups and downs

2013-07-19T00:00:00Z

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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Hansom: I second that emotion

2013-07-12T00:00:00Z

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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Hansom: Let's go geographical

2013-07-05T00:00:00Z

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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Hansom: All ears

2013-06-28T00:00:00Z

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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Hansom: Coming clean

2013-06-21T00:00:00Z

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)