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Waste not: how interior design is unlocking circularity

A new approach to interior design is turning the built environment into a vast, reusable materials bank, proving that circularity can meet both sustainability goals and financial targets.

Research

Anatomy of change: Rethinking healthcare learning environments

The healthcare sector in Australia is at a pivotal moment. From workforce shortages and shifting patient demographics to rising chronic disease rates and economic pressures. These challenges demand a bold rethink of traditional healthcare education spaces.

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 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.

Tam Dao

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.’

Media March 04, 2024

Hassell’s modular lunar habitat for future space settlers builds on a scalable system

Conceived as part of the European Space Agency’s Discovery Programme, the conceptual design for the Lunar Habitat Master Plan will accommodate 144 settlers, reports STIRworld.

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 March 27, 2024

AI round-up: who is using AI and how?

Architects Journal asked various built environment practitioners, including Hassell, to provide examples of their use of AI in practice. The recent Hassell internal Kew Gardens AI Competition and our use of AI image generation for the concept design of the Sultan Haitham Cultural Centre in Oman were among those highlighted.

Media February 14, 2024

Seeds of change

Michael G White, Associate and Landscape Architect at our Sydney studio, explores the digital frontier of planting design in this story for Landscape Australia.