All articles by Joseph Aloysius Hansom 鈥� Page 6
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CommentHansom: The pre-xmas phrasebook
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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CommentHansom: Hit and miss
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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CommentHansom: Losing my religion
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鈥檚 roads. Plus, Zaha vs Japan
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CommentHansom: All Atwitter
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鈥檚 classical Rome is a corker
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CommentHansom: Every breath you take
London鈥檚 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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CommentHansom: Nothing by halves
If you鈥檙e building a new HQ, why not divert the canal so it鈥檚 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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CommentHansom: Dare to be different
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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CommentHansom: Know the score
A US construction giant celebrates the opening of Spartak Moscow鈥檚 new football stadium, the Australian prime minister goes to live in the Outback and there鈥檚 some sterling charity work being done across the sector
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CommentHansom: Prepare for landing
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
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CommentHansom: Plastic bricks and mortar
Monaco plans to become home to the most expensive apartment in the world, we mark a posthumous birthday for an early pioneer of suspension bridges, and a Lego visitor centre is made out of鈥� you guessed it
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CommentHansom: Fantasia
Create your own unique buildings using Lego bricks, see your dreams of a replica Eiffel Tower come true, watch as a dead monarch鈥檚 head comes back to life, be amazed as Battersea鈥檚 crumbling towers are resurrected 鈥�
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CommentHansom: Heads and tales
Land Securities鈥� New Ludgate office development brings up tales of headless maidens, bear-baiting and rhinoceroses, while a PV expert suggests that solar panels across the UK are facing the wrong way
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CommentHansom: Verse and worse
Poetry (of a kind) wins the day for WSP, placemaking finds its place (on the coffee table), Ken doll鈥檚 private bits get a once over, Germany beats Argentina (again) and Didcot A power station is blown up out of all proportion
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CommentHansom: All change
With Gove gone, architects sniff better days ahead, the revolving door of planning ministers takes another turn, a former Kier boss makes a speedy, if unadventurous, comeback, and JCB digs 18 more holes
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CommentHansom: Time gentlemen, please
There鈥檚 a wry confession at the Education Funding Agency, directors at a charity鈥檚 VIP reception sneak into a pop concert, and workers on the Nottingham Tramlink project face a strict drink and drugs test
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CommentHansom: Whatever floats your boat
This week, the construction industry has fun on the water and climbs every mountain - well, three of them - while Berkeley celebrates trickle-down happiness and the chancellor makes a shocking confession
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CommentHansom: Winning ways
This week, the World Cup gets a clean-up (not before time, perhaps), the UK America鈥檚 Cup team is inspired by Formula 1, WYG shareholders receive something approaching good news, and some numbers get crunched
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CommentHansom: The Departure Lounge
This week, a charity prepares to set off for some mountain climbing, brave construction folk drop in on Pegasus Bridge, the head of Foster + Partners takes his leave (twice), and the Queen departs from normal English
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CommentHansom: Seen and herd
This week, cows cross the line at Cambridgeshire鈥檚 guided busway project, tourists are told where to go by a former transport minister, and we celebrate longevity and charitable giving in equal measure
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CommentHansom: A walk on the wildside
Something fishy is going on in Gibraltar and an otter takes against HS2, but birds and ready mix concrete find themselves oddly at ease with each other - plus, the future has hoverbuses but no tea breaks