All Hansom articles – Page 30

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    We’ve got the answers!

    2008-11-14T00:00:00Z

    To such questions as ‘How do you survive the recession using only baked beans and window cleaning fluid?’, ‘Does a large prison sound less scary than a Titan prison?’ and “Where do all the leaves go?’

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    Put on a happy face

    2008-11-07T00:00:00Z

    What’s the best way to keep cheerful through the downturn? A quick game of golf, a few fireworks and then a glass of bubbly back at the in-office bar sounds good to me

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    ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø demolished to avoid empty property tax

    2008-11-06T11:03:00Z

    A landowner explains to drivers on the A40 how Gordon Brown's new tax on empty property forced it to demolish its building

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    Question time

    2008-10-31T00:00:00Z

    Everything’s getting terribly serious, isn’t it? This week we ponder life’s big questions: what can make us happy? How can we save our businesses? And what is making Gary Barlow so miserable?

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    Out with the old

    2008-10-24T00:00:00Z

    As the autumn trees are changing, we turn over a new leaf, with a different housing minister, some original vocabulary, a fresh-look logo and the option to go for tapas

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    How have the mighty fallen

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    The bold and the beautiful at Dubai’s latest luxury resort get a nasty shock, a celebrity gardener is rudely excluded and a mathematically minded company boss makes a third blunder

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    Spotted!

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Wates gets a starring role on the X Factor, a romantic lawyer woos his lady at the Royal Courts of Justice, Mr Justice Jackson sees it all before and Arup puts on a really cool party

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    Winter warmers

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    As the nights draw in, hospitality and goodwill abound, from friendly Swedish engineers, an extremely generous salary offer and a kind invitation to take up residence in a caravan

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    Topsy-turvy

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Architects get mistaken for moneylenders, engineers try to be journalists and there’s snow on the horizon in Saudi Arabia. All in all, it’s been a rather bizarre week …

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    Eat, drink, fall overboard

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    It’s Cowes again, where gentleman are free to do what gentleman do best – sail close to the wind, sink pontoons, tumble arse-first down hatches and beer-first off the back of boats

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    Time and space

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    This week’s report from construction’s hidden world tracks down Sunand Prasad and Jarvis Cocker on route to the Arctic, takes the air in Dubai and uncovers a strange transformation in Edinburgh

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    Hansom Dancing away the storm

    2008-09-05T00:00:00Z

    There may be trouble ahead, but while there’s music and moonlight and love and romance, let’s face the music and dance. Alternatively, we could just change our names

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    Hansom — summer lovin’

    2008-08-29T00:00:00Z

    It’s hugs and smiles all around this week (unless you’re a housebuilder, of course), with bosses getting plenty of TLC, fathers learning from daughters, and Boris feeling the wind through his hair

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    Hansom — Good sports

    2008-08-15T00:00:00Z

    The country is in sporting mood, and the construction industry is no exception, cycling, diving and sailing the summer away. Oh, and rescuing some cute little kittens. Aww …

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    And the livin’ is easy

    2008-08-08T00:00:00Z

    It’s summertime, and the industry is rising to the occasion. What would the holiday season be without some natty new shoes, daytime TV and a little bit of summer lovin’ as well?

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    Hansom: things can only get bitter

    2008-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Disappointment all round this week as Christmas parties are called off, summer parties downgraded, guests turn up to wait in endless queues and some escape to Mongolia in whatever they can afford

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    You thought things were bad

    2008-07-25T00:00:00Z

    This week, we paint a vision of a dystopian future – a world in which journalists are politicians, the credit crunch ends in murderous pillage and the word ‘Olympics’ may not be spoken …

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    Hansom: curiouser and curiouser

    2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

    As the economic world disappears down the rabbit hole, we find ourselves in a strange land where no email is quite as it seems, consultants befriend barn owls and masked builders roam the Orient

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    Ooh matron!

    2008-07-11T00:00:00Z

    Despite the gloom, the industry has been Carrying On, thanks to some deliciously wobbly desserts and some naughty business in a public park

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    Hansom: Spooky

    2008-07-04T00:00:00Z

    Lovesick phantoms, a paranormal ability to rewrite the past and a man who can talk to the animals (to the animals) – recently, construction has been getting decidedly weird