Green infrastructure

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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.

Susie Quinton

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).

News June 28, 2024

Hassell wins Shanghai Chongming Line international design competition

More than just a transit route, the Chongming Metro Line lies at the heart of a strategic initiative aimed at steering Shanghai toward a future of sustainable urban development.

Media May 23, 2024

A biodiversity guide just in time for our masterclass

Jon Hazelwood, principal at Hassell is co-author of the New South Wales Government Architect’s Biodiversity in Place Framework, released on International Day for Biological Diversity. The report is a great injection of practical ideas, writes Fifth Estate, and living proof that at the state government level people are hearing the concerns of our shrinking list of birds, insects and plants in our urban areas.

News May 10, 2024

Longgang River: a blueprint for waterfront revitalisation

Hassell has been working on the transformation of various parts of a 23.6km section of Longgang River in Shenzhen, China, based on our overall master plan. In early 2023, phase one of the project opened to the public.

Media March 13, 2024

Green Building Council of Australia and Hassell launch Social Value in the Built Environment paper

Our Managing Director, Liz Westgarth, spoke to Green Magazine about the ​‘Social Value in the Built Environment’ paper. She notes that ​‘the discussion paper is a crucial first step towards better defining and tracking social value, which is essential for improving the quality of our built environment and people’s lives’.

Conversation

Transforming forgotten waterfronts into vibrant public spaces

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.

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New City in Sohar

Our master plan for a new city centre, designed to support widespread future economic and population growth and elevate Sohar, Oman, into an international gateway, will transform former degraded agricultural land with over 20,000 new homes and a network of nature corridors.

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 September 22, 2023

Designing linear corridors to deliver greater value for community and planet

Hassell’s new landmark study, ​‘Corridors: Designing linear infrastructure in a non-linear world’, takes a cross-sector look at the impact of built corridors on people and planet, as well as that of urban developments on natural corridors. Combining knowledge from the railway, roadway, waterway, and utility sectors across Australia, China, Singapore, Europe, and North America, the study explores how linear infrastructure can be designed to deliver greater value for all through a unified, holistic corridor design approach. Read the article in Architecture&Design.

Research

Corridors: Designing linear infrastructure in a non-linear world

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

Podcast

Transcendent change and connectivity: Lessons for Brisbane from the London Olympics

How can this moment of collective political will and public funds change the fabric of the city for the better?

News July 17, 2023

Triple win for Hassell at Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Awards

Wangaratta Station precinct in rural Victoria, and the North Williamstown Station level crossing removal project in south-west Melbourne have won top honours at the AILA 2023 VIC Landscape Architecture Awards.
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