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Media February 20, 2025

The MCG-sized garden set to make Melbourne’s arts precinct feel like a nature reserve

A garden featuring the most complex and unorthodox public planting Australia has seen will transform the Victorian capital when it opens in 2028, says The Sydney Morning Herald. Read all about what Hassell principal Jon Hazelwood, the design director for the Melbourne Arts Precinct garden, has to say about the garden’s design — part of a worldwide push to reintroduce more vegetation to our cities.

Media February 18, 2025

Bradfield City Centre’s first building rises

Architecture AU takes us through the completed First Building in the new Bradfield City Centre, comprising offices, a manufacturing hall and a multipurpose space.

News February 17, 2025

Bradfield City Centre’s First Building unveiled: a bold step toward a regenerative future

What if our future cities didn’t just stand still but actively gave back — regenerative, adaptable and deeply connected to First Nations culture? That’s the vision behind the First Building for Bradfield City Centre in Western Sydney, Australia’s newest city in over a century.

Media February 14, 2025

Hassell unveils Bradfield City Centre’s First Building

What if future cities didn’t just stand still but actively gave back - regenerative, adaptable and deeply connected to First Nations culture. Architecture & Design explores the vision behind Hassell’s First Building for Bradfield City Centre in Western Sydney, Australia’s newest city in over a century.

Media February 14, 2025

Brisbane’s night-time economy has been left starving. We have seven years to change

Brisbane Times explores the city’s evolving night-time economy, highlighting Hassell’s symposium, which gathered creatives from across Australia to explore how Brisbane can elevate its cultural identity ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Media February 13, 2025

Test Garden opens at Federation Square

World Landscape Architecture reports on our 18,000 square metre urban garden being delivered as part of the Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation project. The Test Garden seeks to demonstrate the naturalistic planting style and provide a test bed for programming, research and conversations about climate change, biodiversity and ecology.

News February 10, 2025

How Hassell is transforming urban rail across Hong Kong and Shenzhen

A well-designed transport network doesn’t just get people from A to B; it shapes their experience of the city itself.

Media February 07, 2025

Transforming the healing experience with Hassell

Design is reshaping mental health care, fostering spaces that embrace a whole-person approach, writes Architecture & Design. These facilities prioritise not just the patients but also their families and carers, creating a connected network of healing and support.

Media February 05, 2025

Hassell 3D prints community building with earth in Tanzania

Parametric Architecture reports on our design for an organically 3D printed community building in Hope Village, Tanzania. Crafted from locally sourced earth, it forms part of a master plan to support, care for and educate vulnerable young girls within Kibaha.

Media February 05, 2025

A new Test Garden opens at Fed Square

The Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation is bringing an expansive 18,000-square-metre urban garden Laak Boorndap to the heart of the Melbourne Arts Precinct. Southbank News explores our design for a Test Garden, now open for visitors.

Media January 28, 2025

First designs for the Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport Line unveiled

InDesign Live reveals a first look at Hassell’s designs for Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport. Monumental in scope, the project includes six new stations and precincts, and a maintenance and operations depot, all connected by a 23-kilometre corridor of newly restored Cumberland Plain landscape.

News January 28, 2025

Five insights into Melbourne’s new Parkville Station

Parkville Station — one of five new stations for the forthcoming Metro Tunnel Project in Melbourne, Australia — is set to connect passengers to the heart of the city’s world-renowned health and education precinct.

Media January 21, 2025

Perth construction skills and innovation hub opens for 2025 school year

Sometimes, the most transformative stories in design are the ones that quietly reshape communities. Take the newly completed $51m TAFE campus upgrade in Balga, Perth designed by Hassell and set to open this February. It’s more than just a building; it’s a statement about what thoughtful design can do for education and opportunity. Read the full story in Architecture AU.

Media January 17, 2025

2025 AA Prize for Unbuilt Work – Honourable Mention

Ngurra: The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Precinct, Canberra, Australia by Djinjama with COLA Studio, Hassell and Edition Office in collaboration has received an honourable mention in the AA Prize for Unbuilt Work 2025.