Design innovation

Media April 24, 2025

How AI sparked creativity at Hassell

Architecture & Design speaks to Hassell’s Xavier de Kestelier about our internal competition to explore the role of AI in design by using the imaginative brief of creating a treehouse at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, London.

Media February 20, 2025

The Ugandan arts centre bringing harmony to Africa’s biggest refugee camp

The Bidi Bidi performing arts venue offers more than 250,000 refugees the chance to sing, play, dance – and dream of a peaceful future, writes The Guardian. Read all about how our design provides a place for people to heal and bolster social cohesion.

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.

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Bradfield Central Park

Honouring the Cumberland Plain as expressed by the Traditional Custodians, our design for Bradfield Central Park offers a new typology of urban space for Australia, demonstrating how a city space can help heal Country.

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Evolving R&D facilities — what’s next?

Precision medicine, AI-powered discoveries and looming patent expirations on top-selling Big Pharma drugs are shaking up the life sciences industry. To meet these changing demands, research and development (R&D) facilities will have to evolve quickly.

News September 30, 2024

First designs for the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport line by Hassell unveiled

Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport is a city-shaping infrastructure project set to transform Australia’s Western Sydney Aerotropolis region.

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Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre

A community hub that empowers creativity, creates opportunity and brings dignity to the plight of refugees.

Media May 09, 2024

Hassell design new Deloitte headquarters

Indesign visited the new Hassell-designed Deloitte Australian HQ, which ​‘takes the working environment to the next level for staff and visitors alike and does it on a grand scale in Sydney’.

Media May 04, 2024

Hassell master plan for Sohar smart city revealed

Muscat Daily explore our master plan for Sohar, which includes ​‘over 19,000 new homes and 520,000 sqm of office space, besides schools, mosques, hospitals and a new commuter railway station’.

Media April 30, 2024

The best new hotels of 2024

Hemispheres round up the best new hotels of 2024, including the Hassell-designed W Sydney in Darling Harbour, which has made the city skyline ​‘even more jaw-dropping’.

Media April 24, 2024

Fortnite launches to the moon in new ​‘Lunar Horizons’ simulation game

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hassell-designed Lunar Horizons space habitat is the ​‘insanely popular’ video game franchise Fortnite’s latest offering, where players can ​‘actively gather water and Helium-3 to finish the construction of the permanent ESA Lunar Habitat’.

Media April 22, 2024

AI case study: Speculating on urban futures through Midjourney

In a recent interview with ArchitectureAU, Jon Hazelwood, Hassell Principal and Sector Lead for the Public Realm, discussed creating ​‘fantastical’ architectural images using Midjourney ​‘to spark conversations’.‘Just like these fantastical assemblages of plants that appear in the images, a Midjourney image is an ephemeral thing.’

News April 12, 2024

Lunar Horizons in Fortnite: An immersive reimagination of Hassell’s Lunar Habitat Master Plan

Launching today, Lunar Horizons is a new immersive, 3D reimagination in online video game Fortnite of a future European Space Agency (ESA) mission featuring Hassell’s Lunar Habitat design.
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