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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

Conversation

Everyone needs an address: solving the housing crisis

Our Making More Homes roundtable and installation at Perth Design Week highlighted Australia’s housing crisis and demonstrated the potential of collaboration to drive meaningful change.

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.’

Carolin Funcke

With over 15 years of experience working as an architect for leading firms in Australia and Europe, Carolin is a Senior Associate and Co-leader of Education and Science, based at our Sydney studio.

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 02, 2024

Plans filed for Australia’s first Passivhaus office tower

Designed by Hassell, Matters House is a 13-storey building planned for an 842 sqm site in Cremorne, Melbourne, and will be Australia’s first Passivhaus-equivalent office tower.

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 March 14, 2024

How experience design will save our cities

Speaking with the World Experience Organisation, Adam Scott, Principal at our London studio and founder of FreeState, shares his innovative model for how experience designers might solve the challenges of the modern city, have a big impact and gain financial reward.

Media March 08, 2024

Women supporting women in practice

In an opinion piece for Smart Company, Nikki Tugano of diversity, equity and inclusion platform SeenCulture celebrates ​“four incredible women” that she shared an International Women’s Day panel with, including her ​“long-time HR mentor” Karen Atfield, Head of People and Culture at Hassell.

Media March 05, 2024

Healing design assists progressive model of care at new mental health unit

Designed by Hassell for West Moreton Health, the new 64-bed multi-storey acute mental health unit at Ipswich Hospital in Queensland ​“establishes a setting of dignity and calm and places person-focused care, recovery and safety at its core”. Read the full story on Salus.

Media February 22, 2024

Measuring the social value of our buildings

Social Value and the Built Environment is a new discussion paper by Hassell in partnership with The Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). In this piece for The Mandarin, GBCA CEO Davina Rooney shares why the paper is the first step in finding a common industry framework to measure social value in Australia’s built environment.

Media January 19, 2024

Hassell designs inflatable moon base for the European Space Agency

Made from a scalable system of inflatable pods that could be partly constructed from moon materials and 3D-printed on-site, read Dezeen’s write-up on our conceptual Lunar Habitat Master Plan for the European Space Agency.

Media January 19, 2024

Hassell’s modular moon habitat for the European Space Agency (ESA)

Designboom takes a closer look at our Lunar Master Plan collaboration with the ESA and Cranfield University, which ​“regards both what it takes to make a habitat habitable and how to build a permanent society on the moon that can house nearly 150 people in reduced gravity”. Read the story here.
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