All Hansom articles – Page 28

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    Hansom: The high life

    2009-09-11T00:00:00Z

    Despite the downturn, construction is enjoying the lifestyle of a Scottish beauty queen, from getting up late for meetings to noshing down salmon mousse and paddling in a lake of brandy

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    Hansom super-size this

    2009-09-04T00:00:00Z

    There’s nothing wrong with excess, whether taking a prodigious number of lunches or hundreds of trips abroad or lining your wall with mobile phones – but working at the weekend? That’s just too much

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    Hansom War of the words

    2009-08-28T00:00:00Z

    It’s summer and everyone’s getting hot, bothered and a bit worked up, from PRs bickering over press releases to complaints about Chinese cooking and some giggling about a silly name

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    Waterworld

    2009-08-14T00:00:00Z

    Liquid leisure is the order of the day this summer, whether it’s sailing the ocean waves, watching a play in the pouring rain or quaffing ale. Some people are even spending their hols designing WCs

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    Hansom: Sporting life

    2009-08-07T00:00:00Z

    Some unusual sports are cropping up across the industry, including in-office thought tennis, architectural gymnastics, extreme biking and Olympic-level prevarication. Go team!

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    Hansom: The butterfly effect

    2009-07-31T00:00:00Z

    The law of unintended consequences demonstrates its power, as the simplest of actions dooms nasal cells, the reputation of architects, two counties and millions upon millions of aphids

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    Brewing up

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    This week, insights into the industry’s relationship with tea, as rustled up by housing ministers and supped by site monitors, but rejected by stereotype-defying labourers, who prefer dancing

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    Angry old men

    2009-07-17T00:00:00Z

    The Prince of Wales loses another friend, the Shard team unwind to a bunch of gnarled old punks and a senior architect has reason to feel aggrieved/flattered after a judge draws an unlikely comparison

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    Hansom ’tis the season to be what?

    2009-07-10T00:00:00Z

    In the building industry this week we find tidings of joy, hustle and bustle at train stations, cosy quilts, lots of presents and a fun quiz. Um … it is July, isn’t it?

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    Read all about it

    2009-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Tories’ Olympic cash axe plot exposed … Fury erupts over Mandelson letter snub … Minister missing presumed frightened … Quango nepotism probe shock … and boss has breakfast with Jordan

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    Hansom: Songs of love and hate

    2009-06-26T00:00:00Z

    In the nice corner this week we have wine-waiting estate agents, relatively honest MPs, optimistic housebuilders and self-critical contractors … and in the nasty corner: Cliff Jones of Procure 21

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    Hansom: Unmasked

    2009-06-19T00:00:00Z

    Paranoia grips the industry this week as all kinds of things turn out to be all kinds of other things: alien invaders, human statues, sons and, er, someone’s pet doggie

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    Having it large

    2009-06-12T00:00:00Z

    This week resembles nothing so much as a big night out, starting with a booze-up in the new bar, a comical confusion about who’s doing what, a late Currie – and of course the massive bill at the end

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    Hansom: Rock, paper, scissors

    2009-06-05T00:00:00Z

    It’s a dead heat for who’s had the worst week: a load of rockery-dwelling statues, the man faced with a mountain of company records, or a client forced to delay a – ahem – delicate procedure

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    Unequal combat

    2009-05-29T00:00:00Z

    Small Scottish firm vs Zaha, local resident vs Nick Candy, pensioner vs planners, man vs wife: this week proves that sometimes, just sometimes, the underdog comes out on top

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    In the pink

    2009-05-22T00:00:00Z

    There’s a healthy glow over construction this week, from red-flag-waving anti-monarchists, creatively priced vino and the coy blushes of Chinese officials. Oh, and some football team or other

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    Voices from the abyss

    2009-05-15T00:00:00Z

    As the recession drags on, we hear the sound of lamentation from losing Crossrail bidders, wailing from architects’ competition lists and saucy ad libs from property professionals

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    Accidents will happen

    2009-05-08T00:00:00Z

    Spare a thought for those singled out by fate for special treatment, like the chairman who lost his bag, the woman who preferred injury to dishonour … and the union man who invented a new way to protest

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    Metamorphoses

    2009-05-01T00:00:00Z

    We bring you tales of strange transformations this week as the industry tries alchemy, women turn into angels, rich people lose vast sums of money and ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s front cover is vandalised by a reader

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    Hansom: Bitter pills

    2009-04-24T00:00:00Z

    There’s been much that’s hard to swallow of late in the world of construction, whether it be workers standing idle, a critic’s harsh words, a questionable quiz defeat or a whole sheep’s head