Transport

Marking a generational milestone in Sydney’s urban development, Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport exemplifies how research-led design can respect First Nations Australians and the concept of Country while facilitating a dynamic future.

Conceived as a piazza, The Square — a food and beverage precinct inside Melbourne Airport, Australia puts the traveller experience at its heart.

Designed to draw people to the waterfront, the Grand Terminal creates a vibrant new multi-use public space for Doha.

The Melbourne Metro will transform the way people move around the city, improving access to key destinations and landmarks.

Our designs for 25 metropolitan train stations and surrounding precincts in Melbourne, Australia, not only enhance commuter safety and efficiency but create vibrant new civic spaces that will benefit communities for years to come.

By unlocking critical bottlenecks and streamlining passenger experience, the city-shaping Cross River Rail marks a new era in transport for both the Australian city of Brisbane and the surrounding region of South East Queensland.

Our design for the Sydney Airport International Forecourt transforms the visitor arrival and departure experience via an immersive landscape that embodies the spirit of Sydney. The revitalised public space sets a new industry benchmark for a First Nations design for Australia’s most traversed public space.

Working with collaborators WSP, we’re delivering a far-reaching rail and master planning project for this fast-growing city.

We designed eight new stations and precincts and upgraded five existing ones for this Sydney project - Australia’s first fully automated rail system.

Gateway to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games site, the Olympic Park Station handled an estimated 80 percent of the 1.2 million people attending the Games.

The four stations we designed for the A$2.35 billion expansion of Sydney’s metropolitan rail network continue to demonstrate that travel by rail can be enjoyable, comfortable and uplifting.

This expanded terminal will be a destination in its own right, a gateway to the city and a connection to the state’s landscape and culture.

In Palermo, Italy, the Mediterranean Sea was once the city’s ​‘front door’ to the region and the known world beyond it.

From the anticipation of arriving at a major event to the communal experience of leaving with the crowd, Perth Stadium Station in Western Australia delivers on the stadium’s​“fan first” philosophy.

A new light rail system was the catalyst for economic, lifestyle and sustainability benefits for the Gold Coast, one of Australia’s fastest growing cities.

Future passenger growth is at the heart of our design for Project LIFT - a $370 million airport expansion.

Our global team’s concept for transforming this 19th century Melbourne landmark was unanimously selected as the winner out of 117 international entries.

When thoughtfully designed, transport-oriented developments (TODs) – those clusters of homes, offices, and public spaces orbiting train stations and bus hubs – promise something radical: they can redefine – not just how people move across cities – but how they thrive.

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

Australia’s new metro projects are reshaping more than just transit networks; they’re reimagining how urban areas link vital corridors, strengthen communities, and embed First Nations heritage into the heart of our cities.

Exploring the glue that makes innovation precincts thrive.

How do you create an equitable transport experience for commuters with complex needs? Take a look at how we embedded co-design in the Cross River Rail project on Yuggera and Turrbal Country in Brisbane, Australia.

How can this moment of collective political will and public funds change the fabric of the city for the better?

Melbourne’s Town Hall Station and City Square are now set to open in 2025 — a year ahead of schedule — as a result of construction wins on the transformational Melbourne Metro. Find out more about this city-shaping infrastructure project.

Read about Hassell’s successful and sustainable railway station landscape rejuvenation in Australian Design Review.

Hassell is the winning design practice for the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Service City (SHISC) Transit-Oriented Development project.

Tanya Golitschenko has been shaping the future of urban transport since joining our Brisbane studio in 2019. A skilled architect and leader, Tanya says the motivation to create better and more inclusive spaces has come from her five-year-old daughter, Florence, who was born with hearing loss.

We are responsible for leading the urban design, architecture and landscape architecture services for the 23-kilometre rail corridor, six new stations and station precincts, as well as the maintenance depot, in collaboration with our key design team partners.

Amid the transformative impact of hybrid work, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of commuting has emerged as a central concern. Our recent research sheds light on a vital way to help encourage people back to the office and support employee wellbeing — efficient, affordable and sustainable transport systems.

Great rail design always starts with people. It’s in our DNA and has guided us over our 25-year history of creating award-winning urban transport experiences.

We recently presented our ​“gigantic Metro Tunnel Project” at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Singapore. InDesign spoke to Hassell Principal Ingrid Bakker about the scale of the work and what’s driving the design. Read all about it here.

With international borders now open in Australia, what can we expect from the new generation of airports as travel re-emerges?

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What if the answer to post-Covid-19 airport operational requirements isn’t as extreme as redeveloping terminal space? What if we look outside the terminal to the arrival spaces and forecourts?

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Our rail infrastructure needs to keep moving, no matter what the world throws at us next.

Why distributed rail station entrances are the key to Hong Kong’s superdensity.

Could ​‘vertical streets’ be the next step in the evolution of the city?

Could we – and should we – master plan an entire country?

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