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Future-proofing Asia-Pacific (APAC) hospitality: innovation and adaption

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) hospitality sector is experiencing a powerful resurgence, driven by evolving traveller behaviours and renewed investor confidence. Our latest research report delves into this dynamic shift.

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 23, 2024

Review: W Sydney in Darling Harbour

‘The largest W in the world has suites that wow and an aesthetic that leans into the urban grit of its surroundings – without losing the luxurious touch,’ writes the South China Morning Post of the Hassell-designed luxury hotel.

Media April 10, 2024

W Sydney: ‘The largest and most ambitious W Hotel in the world’

Luxury Travel caught up with George Fleck, W Hotels’ Vice President and Global Brand Leader, to discuss the Hassell-designed W Sydney, which he notes captures ‘the sense of fun that characterises the city’.

Media March 27, 2024

Spotlight on W Hotel Sydney

Indesign sat down with George Fleck, W Hotels Vice President and Global Brand Leader, to talk about hotel and hospitality design trends and the Hassell-designed W Sydney, “the largest and most ambitious W Hotel in the world”.

Media March 16, 2024

Up close: W Sydney

The West Australian paid a visit to the Hassell-designed W Sydney in Darling Harbour. The third W hotel in Australia, “with its dramatic curved structure, it has quite a presence”.

Media January 29, 2024

The hot list: The best hotels opening in Australia in 2024

Explore Travel rounds up the most anticipated hotel openings of the year, including the Hassell-designed “ultimate high-end escape” The Star Grand, set to launch in Brisbane in August.

Media September 01, 2023

Coming soon: The new generation of game-changing hotels

Named amongst ‘a new breed of hotels’, W Hotel is set to welcome guests from 12 October 2023. “The 585-room-and-suite hotel is set within Darling Harbour’s The Ribbon, an idiosyncratic curvy building squeezed between freeway flyovers and designed by Australian architects, Hassell.” Read the article in SMH Traveller.

News August 23, 2023

Accelerating innovation: Hassell+AATU win landmark USTC Business School in Hefei, China

Hassell has won the design competition for USTC Business School in Hefei, China with a vision for a landmark ‘Infinity Knowledge Hub’. “Our submission proposes a landmark and iconic design fully integrated into the campus and the city in a bold new vision for USTC Business School,” says Xun Huang, Principal. Read about this innovation accelerator.

Media August 08, 2023

Fat Noodle at The Star Brisbane

When The Star Brisbane opens in April next year, it will lead with a collection of more than 50 food-and-beverage concepts at Queen’s Wharf. “Fat Noodle at The Star Brisbane will be designed by heralded international architecture and interiors studio Hassell, with a hawker market-style aesthetic – complete with banquet tables and a high-energy open kitchen – expected to boast an immersive and transportive quality.” Read more in the Weekend Edition.

Media August 08, 2023

First Look: Inside The Star Brisbane’s luxury hotel at the $3.6 billion Queen’s Wharf precinct

The Star Grand offers a first-look inside its signature five-star riverfront hotel, which is set to become a new landmark on the Brisbane CBD skyline. With interiors designed by leading studio Hassell, The Star Grand boasts an uncompromising aesthetic that is “equal parts elegant as it is extravagant, opulence abounds in every detail of the resort.” Read more in Style Magazine. Image: Fat Noodle courtesy of The Star Grand Brisbane.

Media May 31, 2023

Hassell’s Ovolo Hotels in Brisbane and Sydney named in Top 25 best luxury hotels

Our design for Brisbane and Sydney Ovolo Hotels elevate them into the Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best Top Hotels, signifying the highest levels of excellence in hospitality.

Media February 20, 2023

W Hotel named one of the 10 Best New Hotels and Resorts for 2023

Slated to open in October 2023, the W Sydney inhabits “much of the Hassell-designed building dubbed The Ribbon for its magnificent undulating form”. The Ribbon is a cornerstone of the evolution of Darling Harbour where the nearby Harbourside shopping centre is next in line for a Hassell-led transformation.

News December 06, 2022

Our 2022 Awards Wrap: Hassell shines on the awards stage

Six practitioners and 16 projects honoured with national and international awards. These awards are richly deserved by our multi-talented architects and designers as well as by our clients and collaborators – near and far.

News August 01, 2022

Meliá Chongqing wins at 2022 Golden Bund Awards

Meliá Chongqing Hotel and Resort is the winner of the Silver Award in the Best Hotels category at the Golden Bund Awards.

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