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Event November 30, 2022

Breathing space: A regenerative approach to designing places

Our Hong Kong studio teamed up with our client The Great Room to co-host a panel discussion titled, ​‘Breathing space: A regenerative approach to designing places’. The event explored the role that green, public and third spaces play in transformative urban regeneration and social sustainability and how these spaces – from pocket parks to precinct scale – can have cumulative positive effects for a city.

PODCAST

Standing up for regeneration, Country — and each other

With the built environment contributing to around 40% of global emissions, our industry has a pivotal role to play in limiting the impacts of climate change. Hear the motivations, failures, successes, and ideas from leaders creating change.

News October 17, 2022

Hassell’s new Brisbane studio champions a new way of working

Our Brisbane studio in Queensland, Australia has found a new home inside the historic Peters Ice Cream Factory at West Village, West End.

PODCAST

Lessons from Country with our First Nations partners

Early engagement, investment, integration and planning are crucial elements in maintaining positive collaboration throughout a project’s journey, so too are the employment opportunities that projects provide for First Nations people.

Media September 19, 2022

Darling Harbour redevelopment to kick off

Architecture AU

Conversation

A buoyant state of mind

Natural disasters can challenge our health, environment and way of life but they can also bring us closer. Riverside Green in Brisbane, Australia is a symbol of recovery and unity in a flood-prone city.

News August 25, 2022

Hassell wins major honours at China’s SRC Design Awards

West Bund riverfront upgrade in Shanghai and Riverside Green in Brisbane have received top honours at China’s annual Streetscape Research Centre (SRC) Design Awards.

News July 22, 2022

The Community Garden: a social hub for Shenzhen Creative Week

What kind of exhibition pavilion sparks curiosity, invites engagement and creates lasting impressions? These are some of the questions our Shanghai team explored for the Community Garden — a unique social hub at the 2022 Shenzhen Creative Week.

News July 20, 2022

Property X-Change to help revitalise London’s high streets

Property X-Change is a new knowledge platform, co-curated by Hassell Senior Researcher Camilla Sigaard Andersen, which brings together property owners and those with fresh ideas to revitalise London’s 600 local centres.

News June 23, 2022

Cool, calming and connected: the award-winning UQ Student Central

Find out why our landscape for The University of Queensland’s Student Central has been awarded the 2022 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), QLD Chapter, Landscape Architecture Award for Health and Education.

News

Peter Lee receives Order of Australia

Hassell Principal Peter Lee has received an Order of Australia Medal for his service to community housing initiatives and to architecture

News

Sustainable Sydney 2030 to 2050: Continuing the Vision

A vision for a more liveable, sustainable and diverse Sydney.

Media

Hassell Studio on a more resilient and sustainable urban architecture

Salone del Mobile. Milano

NEWS

Uganda’s Bidi Bidi Music Centre for refugees

The Bidi Bidi Music & Arts centre aims to change the narrative around refugees in Uganda.

CONVERSATIONS

From source to sea, over 40 years

In 1979, Hassell and Land Systems started designing ​‘Australia’s first fully-realised linear park’ along the River Torrens in Adelaide, South Australia. More than 40 years later, Adelaide’s residents tell us how it became - and has remained - one of the city’s best places.