Events

News July 02, 2024

Connection and care: Navigating social value in our built environment

Every new building, space or place has the potential to provide social value. This is just one of the key takeaways from our national series of events launching Social Value in the Built Environment, a new discussion paper by Hassell and Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA).

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.

News March 08, 2024

International Women’s Day 2024: ​‘It’s not just altruism – it’s good business’

Although there has been significant progress regarding equity in the workplace, women today still encounter substantial barriers to attaining equal footing in the economy. Let’s look beyond the granular ways to fix the symptoms and disrupt the cause.

Conversation

Property X-Change: Transforming high streets through collaboration and knowledge sharing

In 2022, a new knowledge-sharing initiative — aptly called Property X-Change — was launched with a mission to support London’s struggling high streets in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. After a year of facilitating community events, collaboration and knowledge sharing, we reflect on the successes so far across all corners of the capital.

Media August 04, 2023

Designing more sustainable homes

Hassell senior associate Razvan Ghilic-Micu joined a recent panel discussion entitled Making Sustainability a Reality: Future-fitting Homes with Eco-Conscious Design, offering insights on the timeless elements that add up to crafting long-lasting homes. Read more in Tatler Asia.

Event July 11, 2023

Inhabit: Chemistry of the City

Hassell’s Sustainable Design Leader Sian Willmott joins an esteemed panel to explore how we can make our built environment more conducive to a healthier planet. 5pm Thursday 10 August at 530 Collins St, Melbourne. Find out more about this event…

Media June 12, 2023

Design Wall at NGV is epic, here is how Hassell designed it

With raw, elemental features, Design Wall 2023 honours Melbourne’s vibrant product design scene and encapsulates a commitment to sustainability. Read the full story in InDesignLive.

Conversation

Adelaide Festival Centre celebrates 50 years as a cultural beacon

Australia’s first purpose-built performing arts centre celebrates an ​‘enduring architecture’ award win and five decades in the cultural spotlight. We look at how Adelaide Festival Centre took shape and continues to evolve.

Media June 02, 2023

London Design Biennale opens

London Design Biennale has opened at Somerset House. Amongst more than 40 installations, the biennale has dedicated a pavilion to the Bidi Bidi Music & Arts Centre in Uganda’s Bidi Bidi refugee settlement. The project is developed by to​.org and designed by Hassell in partnership with Arup. Upon completion, the centre will provide space for creative expression, training, and performance in Africa’s largest refugee settlement, currently the home of over 270,000 refugees who have fled violence in neighbouring South Sudan. Read the full article in ArchDaily.

Media May 18, 2023

Engineering heritage of the Walsh Bay Arts precinct

On the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, not far from the Opera House, is Walsh Bay — home to Hassell’s Sydney studio. It’s had many lives: as the docking point for the first fleet, home to container terminals and the traditional lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. It’s now a world-class arts precinct showcasing Australia’s finest theatre, dance and music, where Hassell has designed the premises and performance spaces for Sydney Theatre Company in Wharf 4/5. Take a look back on Walsh Bay’s transformation from rural to industrial to artistic in this Engineers Australia article. Image: EA Create.

PODCAST

Inside the push for net zero cities

Sustainability standards are the minimum - so how can we design beyond project boundaries toward regeneration?

News February 08, 2023

New conference explores the future of data-driven design and technology

What happens when you mix data with design, theory with practice, artists with engineers, advanced technology with human centred practice and urgent action with long-term thinking? Find out at the Data Informed Design Conference in Melbourne, Australia curated by our partners Place Intelligence.

Event November 30, 2022

Breathing space: A regenerative approach to designing places

Our Hong Kong studio teamed up with our client The Great Room to co-host a panel discussion titled, ​‘Breathing space: A regenerative approach to designing places’. The event explored the role that green, public and third spaces play in transformative urban regeneration and social sustainability and how these spaces – from pocket parks to precinct scale – can have cumulative positive effects for a city.

PODCAST

Why designing for spontaneity is what cities need now

“When people come together, ” says Su Lim, ​“we can create great adventures, and then in turn, that manifests in memory.”

PODCAST

Illumination: data, knowledge and design

This special podcast episode from our friends at MTalks explores the changing role of data, knowledge and design in our cities and in public institutions.
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