Sports & Culture

With its ​‘fan-first’ design, Optus Stadium in Perth is up there with the most-loved Australian destinations for sport and entertainment.

Designed in a joint venture including Hassell, the Northern Stand, which replaced earlier structures and expanded the MCG’s capacity to 100,000, including 55,000 new seats made closer to the action, remains a benchmark for modern stadium architecture. 

Considered ​‘the heart of South Australia’, Adelaide Oval is the city’s most cherished sporting and cultural landmark. The Western Grandstand honours the iconic venue’s heritage while transforming Adelaide Oval into a contemporary, world-class facility that is distinctly South Australian.

Laak Boorndap, an immersive landscape planted entirely on an elevated deck will help to reshape Australia’s Melbourne Arts Precinct with one of the most richly layered planting designs of any public garden in the world.

This parkland is designed to ignite the imagination, connecting kids with nature and indigenous culture.

ICC Sydney unlocks Darling Harbour – and showcases Sydney to the world.

A place for learning and belonging, the Community Building for Hope Village, One Heart Tanzania, will inspire and empower vulnerable young people.

Riverside Green at South Bank Parklands gives Brisbane’s growing population a new open space, connecting people to the heart of the city and the Brisbane River.

A community hub that empowers creativity, creates opportunity and brings dignity to the plight of refugees.

A winning design concept for a long overdue cultural landmark, Ngurra expresses the significance of First Nations’ history and traditions in Australia’s national conscience.

Over the past 30 years Sydney Theatre Company has established its reputation as one of the world’s foremost performing arts institutions, and in the process outgrown its existing facilities.

After being named a UNESCO Creative City, Geelong needed an arts centre to match its growing reputation as a design-forward artistic hub.

This new museum is designed to celebrate the unique culture, history and landscape of Western Australia and revitalise the creative heart of its capital, Perth.

From a power station to an art gallery, our plan to transform the East Perth Power Station is a very tangible connection to the power of the Western Australian landscape.

A concept by Hassell, Herzog & de Meuron and Purcell to revive this much-loved, historic Melbourne station was unanimously selected as the winner out of 100+ international entries.

Along with our partners, we’re creating a vital cultural hub for this remote community in Australia’s Northern Territory.

This authentic and immersive panda trail and habitat changes the way people perceive and engage with wildlife, dissolving the idea that humans are dominant over nature.

Designed as an open circle, Adelaide Contemporary is a new kind of gallery. One that’s more informal and open to its parkland setting, its city and its role in bringing together art, nature and people.

As the site of some of the most ground breaking intergalactic discoveries since the dawn of the Space Age, the new First Light Pavilion cultural centre at Jodrell Bank will bring these stories to life.

Like a​‘hide’ for observing bird life, our concept for this wetland museum delicately balances architecture and nature.

Why performance is the untapped lever that could transform Brisbane into a world-class cultural city.

The prestigious international award recognises and celebrates commercial architecture from around the world.

Could we be using community spaces as tools for regeneration and biodiversity?

Hear Hassell Principal Glenn Scott on designing city-defining sports and entertainment centres on the latest Talking Architecture&Design podcast. Glenn loves the spectacle of live events – large or small – and he’s passionate about designing entertainment and sports destinations that will excite visitors and thrill fans, each and every time.

Indigenous design practitioners from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand discuss embedding indigenous perspectives in the design process.

How do you transform a forgotten urban waterfront into a thriving destination that helps cities become more resilient to climate change? Yuru Ding, Researcher at Hassell, explores six characteristics driving successful waterfront developments.

Cultural buildings that are a direct response to their local environment are more likely to gain global attention.

Perched between the mountains and the sea on Australia’s Pacific coast, South East Queensland and northern New South Wales exist in a subtropical ​‘sweet spot’. But our climate is shifting.

We interpreted Clerkenwell’s historic pleasure gardens in an immersive installation for Clerkenwell Design Week – a riot of smells, textures, tastes and optic devices.

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From pop-ups to playgrounds – temporary projects are as diverse as the communities they engage.

CROSS-OVER displays works around topics that are occupying the minds of design students, academics, and practitioners in Hong Kong and globally.

Get a backstage pass to three epic decades of Brisbane’s music scene from 1989 – 2019, with exhibition design by Hassell.

For Melbourne Design Week 2019 we invited the public to surrender phones and digital devices and enter a giant bubble for a solitary moment to pause.