City-shaping

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 24, 2024

Council endorses office tower at Flinders Lane

A 28-storey high-rise on Flinders Lane in Melbourne received unanimous endorsement from councillors at their Future Melbourne Committee meeting on April 9. Hassell Principal Andy Lowe told CBD News that ​‘the new building had been designed in a way where floorplates could be adjusted if necessary for a future transition from commercial to residential use’. It will now go before Minister for Planning Sonja Kilkenny for final approval.

Media April 20, 2024

World Landscape Architecture (WLA) profile Michelle Zhu

WLA recently spoke to Hassell Principal Michelle Zhu, ​‘a Shanghai-based landscape architect who has over 15 years of landscape architecture experience on many significant public realm and city-shaping projects across China’.

Conversation

Transforming forgotten waterfronts into vibrant public spaces

How do you transform a forgotten urban waterfront into a thriving destination that helps cities become more resilient to climate change? Yuru Ding, Researcher at Hassell, explores six characteristics driving successful waterfront developments.

News April 18, 2024

Hassell design competition win set to revitalise George Street in The Rocks, Sydney

Our concept for transforming the northernmost end of Sydney’s historic George Street has won a NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure design competition.

News April 15, 2024

Five insights into Melbourne’s new Arden Station

Arden Station – the first of five new stations making up the forthcoming Metro Tunnel in Melbourne, Australia – is now complete and ready for testing ahead of the underground rail line’s grand opening in 2025.

Media April 09, 2024

Future Melbourne Committee backs proposed Hassell-designed Investa project

The Future Melbourne Committee recently voted unanimously to support Investa’s Hassell-designed project, which included demolishing a 1,000-space carpark at the 3,196 sqm site at 522-552 Flinders Lane to build a 28-storey office building.

Media April 01, 2024

Hassell release new city master plan for Sohar, Oman

The master plan capitalises on the economic growth from the free port and the arrival of an international rail link to Abu Dhabi – with a new city centre with over 19,000 new homes and 520,000 sqm of office space, as well as schools, mosques, hospitals and a new commuter railway station.

Media April 02, 2024

Housing affordability: Does Australia’s quarter-acre block addiction make sense in 2024?

In a series for The Property Tribune exploring affordable housing ideas, Alex Jones, Senior Associate at our Perth studio, writes that in an age where our households are getting smaller (but Australian homes remain among the largest in the world), thoughtfully designed apartments ─ such as the Hassell-designed 195 Pier Street build-to-rent project in Perth ─ remain a key ingredient of a diverse housing mix.

project

New City in Sohar

Our master plan for a new city centre, designed to support widespread future economic and population growth and elevate Sohar, Oman, into an international gateway, will transform former degraded agricultural land with over 20,000 new homes and a network of nature corridors.

Media March 14, 2024

How experience design will save our cities

Speaking with the World Experience Organisation, Adam Scott, Principal at our London studio and founder of FreeState, shares his innovative model for how experience designers might solve the challenges of the modern city, have a big impact and gain financial reward.

Media March 14, 2024

Why aren’t empty offices being converted into homes?

In a story on repurposing vacant office buildings into housing, Sav​ings​.com cites our Radical Reuse whitepaper for the Property Council of Australia, noting that ​“the big key to keeping costs down is in identifying the right buildings to convert in the first place”.

Media March 14, 2024

Shaping the future of Australia’s rail

In this story on RATP Dev, who will oversee the operations and maintenance of the Sydney Metro – Sydney Western Airport project, Rail Express spoke to some of their project partners, including Ross de la Motte, Principal at our Sydney studio.

Media March 06, 2024

Ingrid Bakker on the Metro Tunnel Project

In this Rail Projects Victoria video, Hassell Principal Ingrid Bakker takes a deep dive on the Metro Tunnel Project in Melbourne, Australia, and how each of the five stations will create new green and revitalised spaces in the heart of the city.

Media February 22, 2024

Measuring the social value of our buildings

Social Value and the Built Environment is a new discussion paper by Hassell in partnership with The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). In this piece for The Mandarin, GBCA CEO Davina Rooney shares why the paper is the first step in finding a common industry framework to measure social value in Australia’s built environment.
Load More