Public Spaces

We see landscape architecture as a powerful tool for meeting vital social, environmental and commercial needs – and for creating natural, sustainable places people love.

Projects

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Doha Grand Terminal

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

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West Bund Waterfront Public Realm

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.

PROJECT

Riverside Green

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.

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Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation

Surrounded by the city’s renowned cultural institutions, the vast, ever-changing landscape of the Melbourne Arts Precinct will come alive with art and performance – a display of architecture and nature in perfect harmony.

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Stadia Precinct, Sydney Olympic Park

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.

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Glasshouse Gardens Public Realm, London

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

PROJECT

Panda Land Master Plan

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

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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.

PROJECT

Colma Creek, South San Francisco

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.

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.

PROJECT

Resilient South City

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.

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Stadium Park and Chevron Parklands

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

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Nanjing Niushoushan Cultural Park

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

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Fair:Field Public Realm

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

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Beyond the Centerline, NYC

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

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Darwin Waterfront Public Domain

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

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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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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.

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Nanjing Tangshan Geopark Museum

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

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GSK Asia House

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.

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Croydon South End High Street

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

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Flour Mill of Summer Hill

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

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Fiona Stanley Hospital

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

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Shenzhen Mangrove Wetland Museum

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

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

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.

CONVERSATIONS

Planting for all the right reasons

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.

CONVERSATIONS

Sowing virtual seeds

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

PODCASTS

Re-emerging resilient

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.

NEWS

Our vision for South San Francisco’s Colma Creek

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

MEDIA

A unified future: River Torrens Linear Park

Landscape Australia

CONVERSATIONS

Wildly in need

Rethinking urban habitat in the age of climate emergency.

Media

In vino veritas: Pt. Leo Estate Cellar Door and Sculpture Park

ArchitectureAU

Media

A diorama in a messy city: Green Square Library and Plaza

ArchitectureAU

Media

Karratha Health Campus | Hassell

World Landscape Architect

NEWS

Hassell wins two of the top five Singapore Landscape Architecture Awards

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

Conversations

Climate emergency: It’s time for architects to act

Architecture AU

Research

Investing in solutions for low carbon living

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.

PODCASTS

What can emergencies teach us about design?

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

Podcasts

Why the best designed cities reflect the best of us

Have we forgotten how to design for love and belonging?

Topics

What makes a waterfront world class?

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.

NEWS

AILA win for Hassell projects

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

Conversations

Bringing trees back to Shanghai

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

Conversations

Vibrant streets through design

planur-e

Conversations

Super bloom: new floral frontiers in public planting design

The Planthunter

Conversations

Connecting pandas, people and nature

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

Media

The Value of Place with Angus Bruce

The Business of Architecture UK

NEWS

Mapping out a wild future for Perth Zoo

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.

People

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