All Hansom articles – Page 11

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    Hansom: What the dickens?

    2016-09-23T06:00:00Z

    This week, we have a colourful tale of giant chimneys, a certain shade of the colour blue, ever-more absurd house prices, a modern mausoleum and some excellent exploits in aid of the less fortunate

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    Hansom: It’s the surreal thing

    2016-09-16T10:34:00Z

    This week, a gobsmackingly pricey home, students of today aren’t what they used to be, chamber music at City Hall, British Land goes walkies, and Holiday Inn guests get to sleep in shipping containers

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    Hansom: Gargoyles and grotesques

    2016-09-09T06:00:00Z

    Chelsea vs Spurs compete for your attention this week – plus, it’s journey’s end for a 1926 signalling cabin, we get ready for Construction Rocks and Boris Johnson gives us a fright (possibly not for the last time)

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    Hansom: Behind the scenes

    2016-09-02T06:00:00Z

    This week, Pokémon Go players are shown the door (again), Manchester City’s glass tunnel raises hackles, John Laing remembers the trouble with PFI, there’s a dispute about bricks and we all go to the opera

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    Hansom: Curtain calls

    2016-08-26T06:00:00Z

    HS2 is buying a forest, a director’s daughter wants to save Kensington Odeon, the EFA head of capital cuts his hair off, and an architect finds fame on the soccer field. Plus, construction wakes up to its Pokémon problem

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    Hansom: Dishing the dirt

    2016-08-12T06:00:00Z

    It’s not that we’ve got it in for the Rio Olympics but things didn’t get off to a glitch-free start. At least there’s good news from the world of cement, a harebrained transport idea could just fly, and Northerners come clean

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    Hansom: Relationship counselling

    2016-08-05T06:00:00Z

    The nuclear community goes hungry, Keller explains the concept of time, HS2 anticipates complaints, some ‘concept’ artists invite you to sleep en plein air, and Derwent and ISG can’t stop giving. Plus, Mrs Trump makes a boo-boo …

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    Hansom: Points of view

    2016-07-29T06:00:00Z

    This week, Heathrow observes its architects up close, an ugly building is looked at from a new perspective, Brighton’s seashore and Sydney’s waterfront enjoy new panoramas, and we get a fresh angle on Europe

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    Hansom: Clearing the decks

    2016-07-22T06:00:00Z

    This week, politicians shed more heat than light at the House of Lords, Whitehall gets the jitters, the Department of Energy and Climate Change gets wind of its demise and London has one less Pole

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    Hansom: Going up in the world

    2016-07-15T06:00:00Z

    Despite crashing markets, many things are on the rise, from the social climbers at The Ivy, to house prices for Europhiles, the appeal of upping sticks for New Zealand, and a really massive pile of cous cous

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    Hansom: Corridors of power

    2016-07-08T06:00:00Z

    This week, the industry considers the legacy of Boris Johnson, eyes a career serving a khaleesi, props up the bar in the Commons and treads in the footsteps of Winston Churchill

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    Hansom: Golly, is that the time?

    2016-07-01T06:00:00Z

    This week, the past is dug up and pored over, we dance and boat race our way to the present, then bury the present back into the ground in the hope that one day it is discovered by the future

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    Hansom: Rule, Britannia

    2016-06-24T06:00:00Z

    As the nation decides whether or not to bind its destiny to Europe’s, we are reminded of the strength of our territorial loyalties - be that to our nation, our home town - or to the desk we’re given to sit at …

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    Hansom: That's entertainment

    2016-06-17T06:00:00Z

    We’re having a good time this week cheering in Prague, on a computer in Slough, whizzing around on a multidirectional lift and China’s biggest rollercoaster. It’s a tube poster that got our subs giggling, though

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    Hansom: The spirit world

    2016-06-10T06:00:00Z

    This week, a heady cocktail of London digs, youth training schemes, celebratory relays for those who built the London Olympics, Mitie’s new surveying tool, hot air balloons and a huge gin distillery

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    Hansom: A right brouhaha

    2016-06-03T06:00:00Z

    This week, workers are left red faced by a builder’s crack, a developer takes the uncertainty out of the EU vote, Black Cab drivers proffer a rare opinion, and a nightclub makes a hullabaloo about development plans

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    Hansom: Power games

    2016-05-27T06:00:00Z

    Football and politics weave in as Greg Dyke tries to tackle Sadiq Khan’s (shrinking) housing targets, Leicester is (still) celebrating, Gatwick strengthens its defence and New York remembers thinking big. Plus, Torytubbie energy policy

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    Hansom: The History boys

    2016-05-20T06:00:00Z

    Khan looks back at his predecessor’s record, two museums cause bidding wars (of different sorts), some politicos put aside old quarrels and there’s more history than we can dig up. Plus, Robert De Niro’s waiting (to open a hotel)

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    Hansom: The need for speed

    2016-05-13T06:00:00Z

    Among the travels and travails this week, the Cheesegrater lifts, an on-the-go minister, van-based job ads, a ban on holiday homes and Boris Johnson riding into the sunset. Plus, HS2 blocked by hedgehogs

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    Hansom: As time goes by

    2016-05-06T06:00:00Z

    Tempus fugit, as Virgil said, or in other words, the clock is ticking, though in Big Ben’s case, not for long, it seems - mind you, 5,000 years ago they only had the sun to go by (thank goodness, that’s still going)