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Media September 12, 2024

New Urban Garden Laak Boorndap to Transform Melbourne Arts Precinct

Green Magazine announces our new designs for Laak Boorndap, an 18,000 sqm urban garden in the centre of the Melbourne Arts Precinct that’s unique worldwide in its planting density, scale and climate resiliency.

News September 09, 2024

Five insights into Melbourne’s new Anzac Station

Anzac Station – the third of five new stations to be finished for the forthcoming Metro Tunnel Project in Melbourne, Australia – is ready for testing ahead of the underground rail line’s grand opening in 2025.

Media September 02, 2024

World Landscape Architecture: City of Perth greenlights transformative Riverfront Masterplan

The City of Perth has endorsed the Perth City Riverfront Masterplan by Hassell to go out for public consultation. This ambitious plan will transform the Riverfront into a dynamic, interconnected, biodiverse urban landscape, creating an exciting and vibrant destination for residents and visitors.

News August 21, 2024

Breaking the mould: MinterEllison’s playful, vibrant new Perth workplace

MinterEllison’s new Perth office in One The Esplanade, designed by Hassell, reimagines the traditional law firm layout.

Media August 20, 2024

Shaping urban futures: Unveiling the Six Qualities of Great Urban Places framework

Our cities are living environments that shape our daily lives and the planet’s future. By uncovering The Six Qualities of Great Urban Places, Hassell explores how design can create spaces that are both sustainable and deeply connected to the people who inhabit them. Read more about our research report in the journal Cities & Health.

Media August 19, 2024

How Hassell’s vision for Wilton Park could enhance Toronto’s public spaces

The Toronto Star highlights the potential of the city of Toronto’s public spaces, showcasing how innovative design, like Hassell’s transformation of Dublin’s 1.3-acre Wilton Park, can inspire vibrant and welcoming environments everyone can enjoy.

News August 12, 2024

Hassell announces new appointments to strengthen commitment to excellence and diversity

Announcing a series of new appointments that underscore our commitment to design excellence, interdisciplinary skills and diverse talent across our global practice.

Media August 05, 2024

Hassell-designed health precinct Murdoch Square officially opens

Murdoch Square, the first stage of the mixed-use Murdoch Health and Knowledge Precinct in Perth, Western Australia is now officially open. Read all about it in Architecture & Design.

Media August 02, 2024

Architecture Australia roundtable: Tools for measuring social value

We know that architecture has a direct impact on social wellbeing and yet, in Australia, we have few tools to quantify this impact. Angelique Edmonds of Architecture Australia moderates a discussion with four people involved in developing measurement frameworks, including Hassell senior researcher Brett Pollard.

Media August 02, 2024

Hassell’s landmark study on linear infrastructure

Don’t miss our landmark study, Corridors: Designing Linear Infrastructure in a Non-Linear World out now in the Summer 2024 edition of Landscape Magazine, the journal for the UK’s Landscape Institute. Camilla Siggaard Andersen, Hassell’s Practice Leader in Landscape Architecture, presents our latest research on the multi-dimensional impacts of transport infrastructure.

Media August 01, 2024

‘We don’t need more concrete’: A new village in Tanzania will use a 3D printer and soil to build its community

In Kibaha, Tanzania, just west of the capital Dar es Salaam, Hassell is among a group of pioneering architects set to build a new village with “earth printing” at its heart. CNN explores our design for a community building constructed with 3D-printed earth in Hope Village.

Media July 30, 2024

Imagining Tomorrow showcases innovative ideas on sustainable design at the V&A London

Introducing Imagining Tomorrow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: a collective exhibition showcasing school students’ innovative ideas on sustainable design, supported by design professionals such international design practice Hassell.

News July 29, 2024

Cultural connection in the heart of the city: the Desert Hub opens in Perth

The Desert Hub in Perth, Western Australia is a vibrant new headquarters for desert rangers to connect, share knowledge and strengthen the world’s largest Indigenous-led conservation network.

Media July 27, 2024

Low carbon aluminium is on the rise: podcast with Jeff Morgan

Within the next decade low carbon aluminium will be the predominant form of aluminium we will be using, explains Hassell Principal and Chair of MECLA Aluminium Working Group, Jeff Morgan. Listen to Jeff’s interview on this infinitely recyclable material and its rise in the construction sector on the Talking Architecture & Design podcast.

Media July 25, 2024

The controversy over Paris’s Olympic village - and others

Since 1924, cities hosting the Olympics have created vast areas of purpose-built dwellings to house the athletes. The BBC talks to Ashley Munday, who was involved in the design of the 2012 London Olympics, about the expectations and challenges of sustainability, urban regeneration and legacy of athletes’ villages.

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