Universities

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.”

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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”.

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Hassell refurbishes historic ANU campus building

Architecture AU

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Mithras Student Village

Designed as a community based on an ethos of connection and wellbeing, Mithras Student Village ups the ante on student housing in the UK.

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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Brighton Business School

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Adam Smith Building

Named for the “father of economics”, the Adam Smith Building aim is to develop enlightened, engaged and enterprising graduates who are internationally recognised.

RESEARCH

Engagement or extinction?

Can good design help overcome barriers to engagement between universities and industry?

CONVERSATIONS

Precincts: the engines of innovation

From the creative industries to science, STEMM precincts power innovative outcomes that benefit education, government, business and the broader community.

RESEARCH

Balancing the books

Academic libraries are stretched to the limit, balancing financial, cultural and strategic goals to keep so many different users happy.