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Media April 17, 2023

bluedot festival unveils its space programme

Science, music and cosmic culture coalesce at Cheshire’s Jodrell Bank Observatory (UK) for this year’s bluedot festival. As NASA collaborators, Hassell takes top billing in the talks programme where we will discuss designing for human habitation on Mars and how funding from the European Space Agency is bolstering development of similar concepts for lunar life.

Media April 17, 2023

New site chosen for WA Women and Babies Hospital

ArchitectureAU reports that the Western Australian government has confirmed the new $1.8 billion maternity hospital will be built at the Fiona Stanley Hospital precinct in Murdoch, close to a medihotel and the Murdoch railway station. The Women and Babies Hospital will offer an expanded range of obstetrics and gynaecology, including neonatal cots.

Media April 16, 2023

Follow the Light: feel the ​‘Intensity’ of lights at Milan Design Week 2023

Hassell’s new ALE.01 Light for Artemide will be unveiled at this year’s Salone del Mobile and features in Stir Pad’s round up of leading lights. Crafted using recycled and recyclable materials, the lamp is designed for glare-free illumination and adjusts to different lighting requirements at different times of the day. ​“Creating the right curve of the body was crucial to achieve a perfect lighting diffusion and the right amount of LED for the best lighting performance, not wasting energy while enhancing wellbeing,” says Federico Venier, associate at Hassell and project leader for ALE.01.

Media April 12, 2023

Melbourne leads the way in global ​‘rewilding’ push

Australian Associated Press talks to Hassell Principal Jon Hazelwood about the creation of an urban garden covering 18,000 square metres across the new Melbourne Arts Precinct — an ambitious attempt to ​‘rewild Melbourne’ and an an example of the global push to bring nature back to cities.

Media April 12, 2023

Six things to learn from Melbourne’s International Flower and Garden Show

Our collaboration with University of Melbourne horticulture researchers and garden designers from Super Bloom features in The Age. It shows just how much colour, texture and all-round biodiversity can be introduced into urban public planting.

News April 12, 2023

Alison Potter joins our Melbourne studio

Welcome to Alison Potter who joins as a Principal in our Melbourne studio. Alison’s passion for world-class, environmentally responsive architectural and urban design outcomes spans the public and private sectors, with extensive work across arts and culture, education, tourism, and city-shaping projects.

Media April 12, 2023

CO-architecture marketplace banks pre-Seed investment

Hassell’s Peter Lee is amongst high profile angel investors in CO-architecture, an online marketplace that connects independent and job-seeking design professionals with small businesses hiring for projects or work. According to Lee, the platform offers a unique solution for a volatile industry.

Media April 10, 2023

Herston Quarter STARS — Brisbane, Australia

New York Metropolitan Magazine features our innovative health care centre Herston Quarter STARS (Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service), noting that the centre is set to challenge what we expect from health facilities and change the way people recover from serious treatment, with a design that reflects the latest insights into better long-term care. ​“This best-practice facility is a working model of a connected healing environment – a place designed to improve both the experience and outcomes of patients recovering from surgery.”

Media April 10, 2023

FreeState’s Adam Scott and Dave Waddell on the always-meanwhile airport

Designers and authors Adam Scott and Dave Waddell extol the virtues of Munich Airport, pioneers in the design and management of the experience-led ​‘always-meanwhile’ airport.

Media April 07, 2023

New mixed-used tower proposed for Spencer St in Melbourne

Hotel News reports on our new mixed-used tower for the high-profile corner of Flinders and Spencer Streets in Melbourne (Naarm). The proposed plans adapt and reuse the existing four floor heritage-listed hotel building as part of a 21-storey tower comprising at least 138 guest rooms, restaurants and retail spaces.

Media April 04, 2023

From office to oasis: green spaces can make or break the ideal office

Our latest report From Office to Oasis features in The Property Tribune. Green spaces in offices are shaping up as a key way employers are looking to help encourage workers to come back to the office. ​“If you want to design a green space that works, and entices people back to the office, this report provides the answers,” says Senior Researcher Dr Daniel Davis. Image: Pexels

News April 04, 2023

First Light Pavilion wins at 2023 Civic Trust Awards

Our design for the First Light Pavilion, an immersive new visitor centre at the world-famous Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK, took top honours at the 64th annual Civic Trust Awards held in London.

Media April 04, 2023

Perth office block to become vertical school

ArchitectureAU reports on our design for St George’s Anglican Grammar that will upcycle a 1980s office building in Perth’s CBD into a vibrant education campus. In approving the scheme, the City of Perth Design Review Panel found the proposal to be ​“a valuable benchmark example for the adaptive reuse of an aging and vacant low-grade commercial office building.”

Media April 03, 2023

State planners approve $53 million plan for St George’s Anglican Grammar School

Hassell’s vision for St George’s Anglican Grammar School’s new CBD premises features in PerthNow. Applicant PTS Town Planning Pty Ltd wrote in a report on behalf of the landowner that the re-use and upgrading of the ​“existing, slightly tired office building” was a good sustainability story.

News April 03, 2023

Tanzania’s One Heart Village to establish a safe home for 250 vulnerable girls and young women

Celebrating an important milestone as we lay the cornerstone for One Heart Village in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. This philanthropic project brings together safe housing, education, healthcare, sport, play and farming areas across a 30-acre site to create a self-sufficient village for young women at-risk of extreme poverty and abuse.
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