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CommentHansom: Lese majeste
Just as Hyde Park鈥檚 Rue du Roi was renamed Rotten Row, and Sir David Maxwell Fyfe became Dai Bananas, so the mocking laughter of the public continues to haunt the great and the good 鈥�
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CommentHansom going too far
Nothing stands still for long in this industry, and threatening to cross a line this week are Abu Dhabi鈥檚 borders, a surveyor鈥檚 kilt, Italian visitors and construction rockers鈥� waistlines
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CommentHansom:聽Claws on the catwalk
As London Fashion Weekend draws to a close, it seems construction is still in the mood, getting huffy about shoe design, contemplating the female form and knocking back champagne. Back to reality, guys
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CommentHansom: How predictable
We have an informative and educational selection of items this week, from stripped pine in the Gulf to Libyan seafood 鈥� although I expect you鈥檒l go straight to the one about bear wrestling with Sarah Beeny
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CommentHansom: Be very afraid 鈥�
Gather ye round for ghost stories and seadogs鈥� yarns, from tales of the living dead at the SEC Group to night-time sabotage on the briny. Thank goodness we have some illumination from the RIBA 鈥�
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CommentHansom: The high life
Despite the downturn, construction is enjoying the lifestyle of a Scottish beauty queen, from getting up late for meetings to noshing down salmon mousse and paddling in a lake of brandy
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CommentHansom super-size this
There鈥檚 nothing wrong with excess, whether taking a prodigious number of lunches or hundreds of trips abroad or lining your wall with mobile phones 鈥� but working at the weekend? That鈥檚 just too much
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CommentHansom War of the words
It鈥檚 summer and everyone鈥檚 getting hot, bothered and a bit worked up, from PRs bickering over press releases to complaints about Chinese cooking and some giggling about a silly name
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CommentWaterworld
Liquid leisure is the order of the day this summer, whether it鈥檚 sailing the ocean waves, watching a play in the pouring rain or quaffing ale. Some people are even spending their hols designing WCs
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CommentHansom: Sporting life
Some unusual sports are cropping up across the industry, including in-office thought tennis, architectural gymnastics, extreme biking and Olympic-level prevarication. Go team!
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CommentHansom: The butterfly effect
The law of unintended consequences demonstrates its power, as the simplest of actions dooms nasal cells, the reputation of architects, two counties and millions upon millions of aphids
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CommentBrewing up
This week, insights into the industry鈥檚 relationship with tea, as rustled up by housing ministers and supped by site monitors, but rejected by stereotype-defying labourers, who prefer dancing
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CommentAngry old men
The Prince of Wales loses another friend, the Shard team unwind to a bunch of gnarled old punks and a senior architect has reason to feel aggrieved/flattered after a judge draws an unlikely comparison
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CommentHansom 鈥檛is the season to be what?
In the building industry this week we find tidings of joy, hustle and bustle at train stations, cosy quilts, lots of presents and a fun quiz. Um 鈥� it is July, isn鈥檛 it?
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CommentRead all about it
Tories鈥� Olympic cash axe plot exposed 鈥� Fury erupts over Mandelson letter snub 鈥� Minister missing presumed frightened 鈥� Quango nepotism probe shock 鈥� and boss has breakfast with Jordan
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CommentHansom: Songs of love and hate
In the nice corner this week we have wine-waiting estate agents, relatively honest MPs, optimistic housebuilders and self-critical contractors 鈥� and in the nasty corner: Cliff Jones of Procure 21
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CommentHansom: Unmasked
Paranoia grips the industry this week as all kinds of things turn out to be all kinds of other things: alien invaders, human statues, sons and, er, someone鈥檚 pet doggie
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CommentHaving it large
This week resembles nothing so much as a big night out, starting with a booze-up in the new bar, a comical confusion about who鈥檚 doing what, a late Currie 鈥� and of course the massive bill at the end
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CommentHansom: Rock, paper, scissors
It鈥檚 a dead heat for who鈥檚 had the worst week: a load of rockery-dwelling statues, the man faced with a mountain of company records, or a client forced to delay a 鈥� ahem 鈥� delicate procedure
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CommentUnequal combat
Small Scottish firm vs Zaha, local resident vs Nick Candy, pensioner vs planners, man vs wife: this week proves that sometimes, just sometimes, the underdog comes out on top