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Hansom: No double-speak here

2015-01-30T06:00:00Z

No (more) news at Balfour Beatty, no one dislikes Boris, and buying yourself a railway line to run around your mansion isn’t an insane overindulgence. Plus, the Scottish health secretary sets a bad example

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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 ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV 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