Culture

After being named a UNESCO Creative City, Geelong needed an arts centre to match its growing reputation as a design-forward artistic hub.

This new museum is designed to celebrate the unique culture, history and landscape of Western Australia and revitalise the creative heart of its capital, Perth.

From a power station to an art gallery, our plan to transform the East Perth Power Station is a very tangible connection to the power of the Western Australian landscape.

A concept by Hassell, Herzog & de Meuron and Purcell to revive this much-loved, historic Melbourne station was unanimously selected as the winner out of 100+ international entries.

Along with our partners, we’re creating a vital cultural hub for this remote community in Australia’s Northern Territory.

With its ​‘fan-first’ design, Optus Stadium in Perth is up there with the most-loved Australian destinations for sport and entertainment.

This authentic and immersive panda trail and habitat changes the way people perceive and engage with wildlife, dissolving the idea that humans are dominant over nature.

Designed as an open circle, Adelaide Contemporary is a new kind of gallery. One that’s more informal and open to its parkland setting, its city and its role in bringing together art, nature and people.

As the site of some of the most ground breaking intergalactic discoveries since the dawn of the Space Age, the new First Light Pavilion cultural centre at Jodrell Bank will bring these stories to life.

Like a​‘hide’ for observing bird life, our concept for this wetland museum delicately balances architecture and nature.

For Melbourne Design Week 2019 we invited the public to surrender phones and digital devices and enter a giant bubble for a solitary moment to pause.

Cultural buildings that are a direct response to their local environment are more likely to gain global attention.

Travel to Mars without leaving London in a new multi-sensory exhibition for all ages.

We interpreted Clerkenwell’s historic pleasure gardens in an immersive installation for Clerkenwell Design Week – a riot of smells, textures, tastes and optic devices.

The prestigious international award recognises and celebrates commercial architecture from around the world.

From pop-ups to playgrounds – temporary projects are as diverse as the communities they engage.

CROSS-OVER displays works around topics that are occupying the minds of design students, academics, and practitioners in Hong Kong and globally.

Indigenous design practitioners from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand discuss embedding indigenous perspectives in the design process.

Get a backstage pass to three epic decades of Brisbane’s music scene from 1989 – 2019, with exhibition design by Hassell.