Universities

Media May 22, 2023

Three Hassell projects commended and shortlisted for the AIA Queensland Architecture Awards

Hassell’s magnetic workplace for Suncorp and our nurturing spaces for UQ Student Central received Interior Architecture commendations in the Australian Institute of Architects’ Greater Brisbane Regional Architecture Awards, alongside Urban Design Architecture commendations for UQ Student Central and Herston Quarter Redevelopment Stage 1 and 2. Read more in ArchitectureAU.

Media May 31, 2023

Offices need to flex up and down, says new Hassell boss Liz Westgarth in the AFR

Offices will increasingly locate collaborative workspaces on key floors to give employers the ability to cluster staff together when only a few people are in the office as well as to spread them out when more come in, architecture firm Hassell’s new managing director Liz Westgarth says. ​“We’re looking at designs for clients that allow them to flex across multiple floors,” Ms Westgarth said. ​“When they have [more] people who want to come into the workplace, they can spread out, and when there are fewer people in the office they go through a booking system that allows them to co-locate together and have that energy and the ​‘bump’ factor.” Read the full article in the Australian Financial Review. Image: Peter Rae.

News May 30, 2023

Liz Westgarth appointed as Hassell’s new Managing Director

As Hassell’s first female Managing Director, Liz represents a generational shift in leadership, with the ability to take Hassell into its next phase of evolution while driving meaningful impact across the business.

Media May 11, 2023

UQ Student Central transformed

Green Magazine reports on The University of Queensland Student Central where we have consolidated key services in one location unified by a student-friendly sub-tropical outdoor realm. ​“Student Central’s sandstone terraces invite passing students to pause and connect with a fluid indoor-outdoor threshold supporting the seamless transition to an interior wrapped in timber, terrazzo, and finger-mosaic tiles.”

Alison Potter

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UQ Student Central

Our outside-in spaces for The University of Queensland Student Central on Yuggera and Turrbal Country in Brisbane, Australia, bring the holistic student experience into the open. Nature meets nurture where lush sub-tropical landscapes and shady spaces promote connection, inclusion and wellbeing.

News February 07, 2023

Inside the University of Brighton’s regeneration

Seven years in the making, the construction of our masterplan for the regeneration of the University of Brighton’s Moulsecoomb campus in the UK is now complete.

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 June 23, 2022

Cool, calming and connected: the award-winning UQ Student Central

Find out why our landscape for The University of Queensland’s Student Central has been awarded the 2022 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), QLD Chapter, Landscape Architecture Award for Health and Education.

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ANU Birch

Our multi-award-winning regeneration of the modernist Birch Building for the Australian National University in Canberra is a celebration of preservation, adaptation, and forward-thinking sustainability practices.

PODCAST

“Beautiful, organic, rapid”:
healing at Herston Biofabrication Institute

Given the right space, resources and design, the team at Herston Biofabrication Institute in Brisbane, Australia become more agile and, says Mathilde Desselle, General Manager of the Institute, ​“more multidisciplinary than ever before”.

Media

Hassell refurbishes historic ANU campus building

Architecture AU

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Mithras Student Village

PODCAST

Cultural chemistry on campus? It’s art + science.

How can a festival that defies categorisation show universities a way of bringing specialist disciplines together to solve the world’s biggest problems? Hear from bluedot’s Professor Tim O’Brien and Professor Teresa Anderson in this episode of Hassell Talks.

PODCAST

How big data can challenge - and validate - the design process

It’s more important than ever for cities to understand how their spaces work and how to attract people back. One advantage city shapers have - but often don’t use to full effect in the design process - is big data.
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