Public Spaces

Honouring the Cumberland Plain as expressed by the Traditional Custodians, our design for Bradfield Central Park offers a new typology of urban space for Australia, demonstrating how a city space can help heal Country.

Designed to draw people to the waterfront, the Grand Terminal creates a vibrant new multi-use public space for Doha.

Since opening in 2021, the West Bund has been attracting up to 40,000 visitors in a single day, becoming a truly must-visit riverfront destination in Shanghai, and one of the most beloved public spaces in the city.

Our design for the Sydney Airport International Forecourt transforms the visitor arrival and departure experience via an immersive landscape that embodies the spirit of Sydney. The revitalised public space sets a new industry benchmark for a First Nations design for Australia’s most traversed public space.

Riverside Green at South Bank Parklands gives Brisbane’s growing population a new open space, connecting people to the heart of the city and the Brisbane River.

Laak Boorndap, an immersive landscape planted entirely on an elevated deck will help to reshape Australia’s Melbourne Arts Precinct with one of the most richly layered planting designs of any public garden in the world.

Yerrabingin and Hassell brought together a team of Indigenous designers, artists and storytellers with strong community connections to deliver an authentic landscape, connected to the oldest living culture in the world.

In London’s fastest growing area, this green and open space welcomes the public to an inner city residential development.

The Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation is a once-in-a-generation, city-shaping project that will redefine the Australian capital’s cultural offering.

This authentic and immersive panda trail and habitat changes the way people perceive and engage with wildlife.

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

Colma Creek Connector brings the community and experts together to imagine – and create – a brighter future for an urban waterway in South San Francisco, using storytelling to engage future custodians.

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

Our collective’s scheme for this ​‘industrial city’ makes it easier to enjoy the creek and bay, reduce the impacts of flooding and build resilience to sea level rise.

This parkland is designed to ignite the imagination, connecting kids with nature and indigenous culture.

Our masterplan and parkland design create a low-impact tourism site that enhances both the site’s natural beauty and cultural significance.

Nestled in an ever-changing, immersive landscape, Fair:Field is a communal space where people in South London can experience culture, recreation and relaxation.

Our idea for New York City’s ​‘Beyond the Centerline’ competition takes us to an untamed ribbon of land lost in time.

Our design for the Darwin Waterfront public domain reinterprets the site’s historic headlands and celebrates the city’s natural and cultural heritage.

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%.

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.

This sprawling tourist parkland is also the site of one of the world’s most fascinating archaeological finds.

GSK is seamlessly to its tropical parkland site through the creation of cascading sky gardens and the addition of more than 60,000 new plants and trees.

Our design was all about bringing the community back to their neglected high street in Croydon, London.

Once an industrious flour mill, now the centrepiece of a unique Sydney community.

The design for this hospital feels anything but institutional. Instead, green vistas, sculpture and sunshine are a healthy part of the plan.

Like a​‘hide’ for observing bird life, our concept for this wetland museum delicately balances architecture and nature.

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

For International Day for Biological Diversity, we are proud to have collaborated with Government Architect NSW on Biodiversity in Place, a groundbreaking new framework aimed at enhancing urban biodiversity across the state of New South Wales, Australia.

How do you transform a forgotten urban waterfront into a thriving destination that helps cities become more resilient to climate change? Yuru Ding, Researcher at Hassell, explores six characteristics driving successful waterfront developments.

Seating has been a cornerstone of public life through millennia and across civilisations. Here, we investigate why it may be the most cost-effective urban design intervention for fostering vibrant destinations.

Embedding social value into our built environment to create spaces that enhance wellbeing and strengthen our communities is essential, now more than ever. But how do we successfully measure its impact?

Our new landmark study uncovers how infrastructure can, and indeed must, be better integrated to deliver greater value for all. Download the ​‘Corridors’ report.

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

A plant is better than no plants. But our city streets deserve more than a few groundcover species in a sea of mulch, which won’t bring us the well-researched benefits of immersion in dynamic nature.

With advances in computing and 3D software, we can now create virtual plants that grow and change with the seasons.

We don’t know exactly what our lives, work and communities will look like post COVID-19. But we know some trends of recent years have accelerated with the global pandemic.

The Colma Creek Adaptation Planning report is now available as a public resource via the Bay Area Regional Collaborative.

Landscape Australia

Rethinking urban habitat in the age of climate emergency.

ArchitectureAU

ArchitectureAU

World Landscape Architect

Panda Land Master Plan, China, and Collect and Connect: Resilient South City, San Francisco, both received Outstanding Awards of Excellence for Analysis and Planning.

Architecture AU

The built environment is a serious contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. We want to develop new social, technological and policy tools to help change that fact.

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

Have we forgotten how to design for love and belonging?

Today, across the world, waterfronts are as fundamental to cities as water is to life. How we design, manage and enjoy these is central to the design of liveable and resilient cities.

Sustainability-focused design was rewarded at the 2019 AILA National Landscape Architecture Awards, with four Hassell projects receiving recognition.

Measuring the benefits of the urban forest – by speaking to people.

planur-e

How master planning can support biodiversity by designing for ​‘umbrella species’.

The Business of Architecture UK

Hassell is helping Western Australia’s capital city chart the next 20 years for their Zoo as they push to extend their role in species conservation and education.