Cities

Cities around the world face increasingly complex challenges. Through insight-based design, we strive to create more resilient, inclusive, engaging places – whether we’re focused on a single site, a neighbourhood or an entire city.

Projects

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Macquarie Street East Precinct Master Plan (MSEP)

The master plan for the Macquarie Street East Precinct, located on Gadi Country in central Sydney, Australia, creates a unified vision for this place of significant political, social and cultural meaning.

PROJECT

Embarcadero and Public Piers Plan

A once-in-a-century chance to plan the future of San Francisco’s historic but run-down piers in this celebrated waterfront city.

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Wianamatta (Western Sydney Aerotropolis)

A huge opportunity across time and scale, the Aerotropolis master plan will shape sustainable urban form for this new city, and change the future of Western Sydney.

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Penn’s Landing Design Competition

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Tokyo Railyards Redevelopment

The ward of Shinagawa on the edge of Toyko Bay was once seen as the ​‘front door’ to Tokyo and Japan. 

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Resilient by Design

San Francisco is one of the world’s most captivating waterfront cities. It also happens to be one of the most vulnerable.

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Huangpu East Bank Urban Forest

The concept is bold. To plant a forest of two million trees along the waterfront in China’s most populated city, and increase green space in the centre by 25%.

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Gold Coast City Strategy

A new light rail system was the catalyst for economic, lifestyle and sustainability benefits for one of Australia’s fastest growing cities.

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Darling Harbour Public Realm

The challenge was to reinvent one of Australia’s most visited public places – the Darling Harbour precinct in central Sydney.

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Ivanhoe Estate

As Australia’s biggest social and affordable housing development, Ivanhoe Estate in Sydney is pioneering a new approach by blending social, private and affordable housing.

PROJECT

Palermo Cruise Terminal Design Competition

In Palermo, Italy, the Mediterranean Sea was once the city’s ​‘front door’ to the region and the known world beyond it.

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Darwin Waterfront

This old industrial port on the fringes of Darwin’s city centre is now the place people gather ​‘beachside’ year-round to beat the tropical heat.

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Flour Mill of Summer Hill

Locked away for 100 years, the mill is now a thriving mixed-use ​‘village’ with homes, shops, cafés, parks and light rail links – a model for urban regeneration.

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Haikou East & Dongzhai Port Mangrove Reserve

The masterplan for the Jiangdong New District in the Chinese tropical island of Hainan restores the coastal water network and preserves China’s largest mangrove forest.

PROJECT

Central Green Forest Park

From a contaminated industrial estate to a 5.5 sq km oasis of nature in the heart of Beijing, China.

Insight

Conversations

From Ordinary to Extraordinary: A New Iconicity

Could the renewal of existing buildings be a more forward-thinking and rewarding alternative to bold, iconic architecture? Discover six essential ingredients that can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Research

The six qualities of great urban places

Drawing on global best practice in urban design, we’ve decoded the components of places that deliver for people and planet.

Media

Oslo on Lee? Five Irish cities where 15-minute living could happen now

The Irish Times

CONVERSATIONS

Compassionate cities: enabling people to have a fulfilling life after a dementia diagnosis

Simple design changes can support people living with dementia, Robina Crook writes for Cities People Love.

PODCASTS

What can emergencies teach us about design?

The valuable lessons we can take from fires, floods and pandemics.

Conversations

Seven lessons for creating social impact by design

Creating social value is increasingly at the top of the agenda across the built environment industries. Design is key.

CONVERSATIONS

Wildly in need

Rethinking urban habitat in the age of climate emergency.

Research

Urban Housing Challenge

London, Shanghai and Sydney are international cities that each have distinct housing models. 

Podcast

Designing for Country

A glance at any Australian town or city shows one of the world’s oldest continuous cultures is largely absent.

Conversation

The case for a national masterplan

Could we master plan an entire country?

Conversation

Climate emergency: It’s time for architects to act

Architecture AU

Topic

Building resilient cities

Resilient cities are more than just sustainable – their connected communities have the capacity to respond to stresses and shocks.

Research

Superdensity: A new model for vertical urbanism

Could ​‘vertical streets’ be the next step in the evolution of the city?

News November 19, 2019

Designing cities for active ageing

Hassell has been appointed to collaborate with the Heart Foundation on the Walk Wise active ageing review and content development project in partnership with the University of Western Australia. 

Topic

What makes a waterfront world class?

Today, across the world, waterfronts are as fundamental to cities as water is to life.

Topic

Installations and interventions

From pop-ups to playgrounds – temporary projects are as diverse as the communities they engage.

Conversation

Desmarting the city

Have we reached the ​‘smart’ tipping point?

MEDIA

What a Master plan is supposed to do

World Landscape Architect

People

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