Landscape architecture

Media March 21, 2025

An experiment in biodiversity: Sydney Metro trial garden

Gardening Australia reveals Hassell’s collaboration with University of Melbourne’s Burnley Campus for Sydney Metro at Hills Showground Station: 110 native species, 32 garden beds, one urban biodiversity experiment.

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 05, 2025

A new Test Garden opens at Fed Square

The Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation is bringing an expansive 18,000-square-metre urban garden Laak Boorndap to the heart of the Melbourne Arts Precinct. Southbank News explores our design for a Test Garden, now open for visitors.

News January 28, 2025

Five insights into Melbourne’s new Parkville Station

Parkville Station — one of five new stations for the forthcoming Metro Tunnel Project in Melbourne, Australia — is set to connect passengers to the heart of the city’s world-renowned health and education precinct.

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Three cities, three metros: The changing role of urban transport design in Australia

Australia’s new metro projects are reshaping more than just transit networks; they’re reimagining how urban areas link vital corridors, strengthen communities, and embed First Nations heritage into the heart of our cities.

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Bradfield Central Park

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.

News November 22, 2024

Hassell wins global competition to reimagine Shanghai’s gateway

Hassell has been named the winner of the prestigious international design competition for the Sanchagang Port Green Space in Pudong, Shanghai.

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.

Media September 12, 2024

New Urban Garden Laak Boorndap to Transform Melbourne Arts Precinct

Green Magazine announces our new designs for Laak Boorndap, an 18,000 sqm urban garden in the centre of the Melbourne Arts Precinct that’s unique worldwide in its planting density, scale and climate resiliency.

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Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation: Laak Boorndap Urban Garden

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.

Susie Quinton

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Ngurra: The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Precinct

A winning design concept for a long overdue cultural landmark, Ngurra expresses the significance of First Nations’ history and traditions in Australia’s national conscience.
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