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News March 07, 2025

Marching forward at Hassell: Equity in action on International Women’s Day

Gender equity isn’t just a commitment for us at Hassell — it’s a movement led by the incredible women shaping our industry every day.

Media March 07, 2025

Whimsy in the city: A new experimental garden has lessons for everyone

The test garden, designed by Hassell in partnership with Super Bloom, James Hitchmough and Nigel Dunnett highlights how gardens can include a complex tapestry of plants that are tough in the face of climate change, look beautiful and attract bees, birds and other pollinators. Read more on The Age.

Media March 05, 2025

Beautiful and thriving: three-year trial to choose plants for giant new Southbank garden

A giant garden at the heart of the Melbourne Art’s Precinct Transformation Project will have plant species specially tested for its urban environment. Read more on South Bank Local News.

Media March 04, 2025

Arts precinct garden research take landscape and ecology design to new levels.

Led by Hassell and The University of Melbourne’s Burnley Campus, the Melbourne Arts Precinct Plant Trials will evaluate over 1,000 plants under extreme conditions, writes Indesignlive.

News March 03, 2025

Hassell’s vision for Australia’s newest city in over a century starts with workplace design

Hassell’s First Building for Bradfield City Centre aims to be regenerative, adaptable and connected to First Nations culture, as told by Indesignlive.

News February 25, 2025

Major construction milestone: 205 North Quay – a celebration of the subtropics

With lush gardens, dining terraces, an outdoor pool and auditorium, Cbus Property’s 205 North Quay in Brisbane, Australia, will shape the future of tower design in the sub-tropics.

Media February 20, 2025

The MCG-sized garden set to make Melbourne’s arts precinct feel like a nature reserve

A garden featuring the most complex and unorthodox public planting Australia has seen will transform the Victorian capital when it opens in 2028, says The Sydney Morning Herald. Read all about what Hassell principal Jon Hazelwood, the design director for the Melbourne Arts Precinct garden, has to say about the garden’s design — part of a worldwide push to reintroduce more vegetation to our cities.

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.

Media February 18, 2025

Bradfield City Centre’s first building rises

Architecture AU takes us through the completed First Building in the new Bradfield City Centre, comprising offices, a manufacturing hall and a multipurpose space.

News February 17, 2025

Bradfield City Centre’s First Building unveiled: a bold step toward a regenerative future

What if our future cities didn’t just stand still but actively gave back — regenerative, adaptable and deeply connected to First Nations culture? That’s the vision behind the First Building for Bradfield City Centre in Western Sydney, Australia’s newest city in over a century.

Media February 14, 2025

Brisbane’s night-time economy has been left starving. We have seven years to change

Brisbane Times explores the city’s evolving night-time economy, highlighting Hassell’s symposium, which gathered creatives from across Australia to explore how Brisbane can elevate its cultural identity ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Media February 14, 2025

Hassell unveils Bradfield City Centre’s First Building

What if future cities didn’t just stand still but actively gave back - regenerative, adaptable and deeply connected to First Nations culture. Architecture & Design explores the vision behind Hassell’s First Building for Bradfield City Centre in Western Sydney, Australia’s newest city in over a century.

Media February 13, 2025

Test Garden opens at Federation Square

World Landscape Architecture reports on our 18,000 square metre urban garden being delivered as part of the Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation project. The Test Garden seeks to demonstrate the naturalistic planting style and provide a test bed for programming, research and conversations about climate change, biodiversity and ecology.

News February 10, 2025

How Hassell is transforming urban rail across Hong Kong and Shenzhen

A well-designed transport network doesn’t just get people from A to B; it shapes their experience of the city itself.

Media February 07, 2025

Transforming the healing experience with Hassell

Design is reshaping mental health care, fostering spaces that embrace a whole-person approach, writes Architecture & Design. These facilities prioritise not just the patients but also their families and carers, creating a connected network of healing and support.
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