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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

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.”

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 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.

Media April 02, 2023

Dark and grim no more: The architects designing Sydney’s Instagrammable public toilets

Our public conveniences at Turruwul Park, Roseberry, on Gadigal Country in Sydney’s south-east, feature in Sydney Morning Herald’s round up of new and noteworthy, light and airy, architecturally-designed loos that ‘can take everything the world can throw at them’. Image: Brett Boardman.

Media October 10, 2022

Design-conscious co-working spaces around the world

Our colourful collaboration on Fora Borough in London features in Wallpaper*‘s round up of world-leading co-working spaces. The design creates working spaces that improve productivity and enhance wellbeing, inspired by the energy of nearby Borough Market. As well as purpose-built, flexible place to camp out during the working week, Fora Borough also offers its members the Residents’ bar with roof terraces and Borealis, a Nordic inspired restaurant.

News March 31, 2023

Hassell collaborates on interactive garden design for Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

Don’t miss our diverse, interactive garden showcasing innovative horticulture research created to improve the liveability of our cityscapes — on display now at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Australia until 2 April.

Media March 30, 2023

UniMelb, Super Bloom and Hassell collaboration designs interactive garden for Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

Our display garden collaboration is billed as one of the major highlights at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS) in Carlton Gardens — a diverse and interactive garden that showcases how innovative horticulture research, landscape and floral design can improve the liveability of our cityscapes. “As designers of city spaces and streets, our new approaches show how resilient plantings can also be diverse and beautiful, which will hopefully inspire home gardeners too.” — Principal Jon Hazelwood

Media March 29, 2023

Unrealized Perth designs on exhibition

ArchitectureAU reports on Perth Unbuilt — an exhibition of unrealized designs by some of the city’s most prominent architecture studios on display at WA Museum Boola Bardip. Hassell’s speculative proposal for the redevelopment of East Perth Power Station is one such scheme. Our proposal called for the former power station to be transformed into a gallery for exhibits of Australian Indigenous and contemporary art. The design is characterized by overhangs and cantilevers with “rotating and shifting planks” inspired by the cliffs of the WA coastline.

Media March 26, 2023

Making outdoor dining parklets permanent a positive step for Melbourne

As an upside of our Melbourne Metro collaboration, outdoor dining on former parking lanes along Domain Road will continue even once the tunnel project is completed. “The scheme was kicked off with free permits that allowed restaurants and cafes to expand onto footpaths, take over on-street car parking spaces immediately outside their business and join with neighbouring outlets to take over shared outdoor spaces. It was an immediate hit… [even] if it meant sitting in a makeshift area previously designated for parking your car, so be it.” Read more in The Age.

Media March 23, 2023

These 3D-printed pavilions are architecture for the anthropocene

“The effects of climate change paired with the mounting accumulation of global plastic waste will undoubtedly change the landscape and scope of architecture in the decades ahead… Noting these challenges, a 3D-printed prototype pavilion designed by architecture studio Hassell, in partnership with 3D-printing studio Nagami and creative collective to.org, propose utilizing a material that isn’t dwindling, but mounting in availability with every passing day.” Read the article in Design Milk.

News March 22, 2023

Affinity Place: a unique new landmark to transform North Sydney

A new destination in the heart of North Sydney on Cammeraygal Country, Australia, Affinity Place is set to become a unique workplace and retail space designed for business, community and people with purpose.

Media March 22, 2023

Perth Unbuilt: See what the city’s landmarks could become in a parallel universe

Our unbuilt scheme that reimagines East Perth Power Station as a contemporary art gallery features in a new exhibition that presents bold visions for urban evolution at Boola Bardip WA Museum. According to principal and head of design Mark Loughnan, Hassell volunteered the design to highlight the site’s potential to draw Perth’s cultural and sporting precinct further along the river. “We did it to create debate and dialogue about what it could become — we saw an opportunity,” said Mr Loughnan, also the firm’s head of design. Read more from The West Australian.