Hansom Detailed Accounts

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All the latest from London's least-publicised ￡425m tower, the RICS' ￡45 page-turner, Steve Morgan's ￡10 football club, and my ￡5 flutter on the Grand NationalrnThere were sighs of relief all round last week as the RICS' long-awaited New Rules of Measurement dragged the noble QS profession into the 21st century. No longer, the authors cried, would varied and archaic measurements befuddle poor clients struggling to understand project estimates. Surprising, then, to see the choice of front cover for the ￡45, 300-page document: a picture of a surveyor's plan measured in good old-fashioned feet and inches.rnMost of the architects in the room at the Building Awards congregated at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' table after the gongs were handed out to congratulate the firm on winning three of them. Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects was in particularly sprightly form, despite having just run into a bit of visa trouble in the US. She had landed a prestigious gig to lecture at Harvard, but the zealous chaps at the US Customs decided the Iran-born architect shouldn't get permission to work in their fair land. Sadly, the cancellation didn't get round Harvard in time, and a roomful of students turned up to hear her talk while she was stuck on the other side of the Atlantic. So much for being a Foreign Office.