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Hansom: Ups and downs

2013-07-19T00:00:00Z

There’s an artificial indoor beach in China, posthumous RICS membership for one of our great scientific minds, some architects ride back into town, and why coming down can be harder than going up

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Hansom: I second that emotion

2013-07-12T00:00:00Z

This week, there’s panic on a government design framework, puzzlement over Zaha Hadid’s latest design and piqued curiosity as the wife of a sixties soul legend encounters a bearded Peter Murray

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Hansom: Let's go geographical

2013-07-05T00:00:00Z

As the planning minister clashes with the countryside, the construction adviser hangs out in a field, the energy minister contemplates the Green Deal desert, and Davis Langdon moves further from a mountain

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Hansom: All ears

2013-06-28T00:00:00Z

David Cameron (the waxwork version) gets an earful and the listening bank makes a reappearance while Man United-supporting Bam workers turn a deaf ear to the no football shirt rules

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Hansom: Coming clean

2013-06-21T00:00:00Z

Honesty seems to be the favoured policy this week, which leads to some surprising sales pitches. I, meanwhile, plan to take to the high seas (or, at least, a North London reservoir)

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Hansom: You're bard

2013-06-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a week of drama again for construction, full of joyous celebrations, a race to get a document ready, a wandering fox and both a reality TV star and our esteemed chancellor working up a sweat

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Hansom: Name that tune

2013-06-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a live performance from the Town and Country Planning Association, a former QS faculty chair at RICS makes a comeback (in Coventry), and is the government still on-song with its Part L plans?

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Hansom: Location, location

2013-05-31T00:00:00Z

Bristol dons red trousers, RTKL treasures its view of St Paul’s cathedral, Scotland flexes its economic muscles, and some surveyors find their way to the kitchen

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Hansom: Performance tips

2013-05-23T11:00:00Z

A trip to Madrid proves thirsty work for the great and good of the UK office industry, Greg Barker forgets diplomacy, and an old fashioned protest song

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Hansom: The art of war

2013-05-17T06:00:00Z

A power struggle fails thanks to Sweett’s silent majority, there’s a sortie to Spain by bike, and an online mission to celebrate our anniversary

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Hansom: Ah, the memories

2013-05-10T06:00:00Z

Let’s go back in time with thought-provoking graffiti from the sixties, a return to the slow pace of barge travel, and the recollection of how the 2012 Olympics promised so much for contractors

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Hansom: High society

2013-05-03T00:00:00Z

We’re up in the social stratosphere this week: dress sense at the Lords, Canary Wharf Group’s plans for the great unwashed, and One Hyde Park’s elusive residents - only high jinks at the Shard lower the tone

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Hansom: Out on the tiles

2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

Nocturnal celebrations of a bacchanalian nature are a feature of this week’s hectic schedule - leaving more sober heads to advise on flood defences, though a junior minister puts a spanner in the works

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Hansom: Adventure calls

2013-04-19T06:00:00Z

We’re off exploring, as construction folk pack some extraordinarily weighty reading matter, download an album or two for the trip, and head off to Malawi - though even here Lord Sugar’s tweets will still reach you

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Hansom: Multimedia communication

2013-04-12T00:00:00Z

This week, RMJM goes through an identity crisis, Pure Student Living approaches Chinese teenagers online, Aecom’s Jason Prior has words with taxi drivers, and T T launches Johannesburg’s second moon

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Hansom: Of all creation

2013-04-05T00:00:00Z

A rapper sings a rainbow in the name of architecture, the game is afoot for the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, there’s more marathon news, and has Balfour Beatty offended the gods?

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Hansom: Dining out

2013-03-28T00:00:00Z

On this week’s menu, an architect’s in the back of Burger King, Next is on the warpath, a Hansom hack is all at sea, and Boris smells something fishy. Plus, rappers and runners are here to inspire us

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Hansom: ‘Cannes do’ attitude

2013-03-22T00:00:00Z

We reflect on last week’s Mipim where BoJo bashed the French, the weather threatened to flood the place, a Turner Townsend employee reminisced about bath time, and we got our hands on some boules

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Hansom: Each to their own

2013-03-15T00:00:00Z

Ken Shuttleworth’s imagination runs wild, Ecobuild punters condemn Eric Pickles to an Orwellian nightmare, Ian Tyler bows out in style and Otto the dachshund is deselected

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Hansom: Making the most of it

2013-03-08T06:00:00Z

It’s been beastly in Eastleigh, but at least architects are finding some novel ways to de-stress. Meanwhile, the PR team at WYG refuses to let a good story be ruined by the horsemeat scandal