Hassell | Urban transport

Awards July 11, 2023

Hassell project shortlisted in 2023 World Architecture Festival Awards

Hassell’s Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project — a collaboration with RSHP and Weston Williamson and Partners — is shortlisted in the Future Projects Infrastructure category for the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards that take place from 29 November to 1 December 2023. Our project is one of 30 Australian projects among 495 shortlisted entries from across the globe. Read the article in ArchitectureAU.

Media June 23, 2023

‘Beauty, delight and joy’: 2023 NSW Architecture Awards winners revealed

Hassell’s Olympic Park Station honoured with the Enduring Architecture Award at the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) NSW Architecture Awards. AIA NSW Chapter President Adam Haddow said the winning projects were at the pinnacle of Australian design. Read the full article in ArchitectureAU.

Media June 23, 2023

Five designs for new Western Sydney ‘Central Park’

Visualisation of Hassell's design for Bradfield's Central Park

Hassell is amongst five Australian landscape architecture practices shortlisted in the competition to design a two-hectare park in a new city development near the proposed Western Sydney Airport. Western Sydney Parklands Authority chair Jennifer Westacott said, “Investment in public spaces is important because a well-designed public space brings people and importantly businesses in, boosting the economic value of everything around it…” Read the full article in ArchitectureAU.

News July 10, 2023

Latest awards

Eleven Hassell projects shone at State awards recently announced by the Australian Institute of Architects and Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. Congratulations to our clients, partners and dedicated teams.

Media June 16, 2023

Melbourne Metro station completion date brought forward

Hassell has announced that the cornerstone of its major Melbourne transport project, Melbourne Metro’s Town Hall Station, is currently on track to open a year ahead of its scheduled timeframe, ensuring City Square will be returned to the community well ahead of originally planned. “City Square will once again become an activated and lively public space, a key destination and meeting place as well as a beautiful new arrival experience amongst the fabric of Melbourne for residents and visitors alike.” — Hassell Principal Mark Loughnan. Read on in Architecture & Design.

Media June 09, 2023

Melbourne Metro Station arriving 12 months early

Trains will be arriving early at Town Hall Station — a whole year early. The new Town Hall station, one of the five new train stations in Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel project, is so far ahead on schedule it will open in 2025 rather than as planned in 2026. Read the full story in Urban Developer.

News June 08, 2023

Metro Tunnel Project’s Town Hall Station — and City Square — to open early

Melbourne’s Town Hall Station and City Square are now set to open in 2025 — a year ahead of schedule — as a result of construction wins on the transformational Melbourne Metro. Find out more about this city-shaping infrastructure project.

Media May 31, 2023

Offices need to flex up and down, says new Hassell boss Liz Westgarth

Offices will increasingly locate collaborative workspaces on key floors to give employers the ability to cluster staff together when only a few people are in the office as well as to spread them out when more come in, architecture firm Hassell’s new managing director Liz Westgarth says. “We’re looking at designs for clients that allow them to flex across multiple floors,” Ms Westgarth said. “When they have [more] people who want to come into the workplace, they can spread out, and when there are fewer people in the office they go through a booking system that allows them to co-locate together and have that energy and the ‘bump’ factor.” Read the full article in the Australian Financial Review. Image: Peter Rae.

Media May 19, 2023

Lendlease, Hassell reveal transformative tower for Melbourne CBD

Lendlease has officially unveiled Town Hall Place, a mixed-use development in the heart of the Melbourne CBD designed by Hassell. Once complete, the ten-storey tower over the new underground Metro Tunnel Town Hall Station will feature 16,000sqm of A-grade commercial space linking into activated laneways, arcades, retail and hospitality offerings. Our design approach acknowledges the history and heritage of the immediate streetscape, while capitalising on the views of Federation Square, St Paul’s Cathedral, Flinders Street Station, the Arts Centre and the MCG. Read more in Architecture&Design.

News November 18, 2022

Alen Nikolovski joins our Sydney studio

Welcome to Alen Nikolovski who joins Hassell as a Principal in our Sydney studio. Returning home after three decades abroad, Alen brings his place-making and city-shaping expertise to lead our work on Sydney Metro and major urban transport infrastructure projects.

Media May 18, 2023

Office building above Melbourne’s Town Hall Station approved

Town Hall Place has been given the Victorian state government’s green light. Our proposal for a 10-storey A-grade commercial tower will deliver a building that is contextually appropriate and beautifully proportioned. “It will be a self-assured, confident building that will establish an enduring civic counterpoint to the inherently ‘expressive’ characteristics of the surrounding buildings,” says Hassell principal Andrew Low. Read more in ArchitectureAU.

Media May 16, 2023

Town Hall Place to tap into Melbourne CBD beat

The AFR reports that planning approval has been granted to Lendlease for the 16,000sqm development above Town Hall Station, designed by Hassell architects, in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. “The transformation of this site will showcase how smart over-station development can unlock the potential of our cities by linking key transport interchanges with exceptional retail, workplace, and lifestyle experiences,” said Tom Mackellar, Lendlease’s managing director of development.

Conversation

How one40william shaped Perth’s skyline and the future of our sustainable urban developments

Thirteen years ago, the skyline of Perth, Western Australia morphed with the emergence of one40william — a landmark CBD development by Cbus Property. Our design delivers a generous urban nexus to the city and its people. Take a look at three design directions that define the success of this project and point to the future of sustainable city-shaping developments.

Conversation

A glimpse into the underground stations of Brisbane’s Cross River Rail

Our Cross River Rail Station mock-up facility offers a glimpse into the ‘friendly’ concourses of Brisbane’s city-shaping underground metro project. Take a look…

Media August 18, 2022

Two new car-free bridges for Perth CBD

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