Residential

Mithras Student Village is not only one of the UK’s more uplifting student accommodation experiences, it’s also re-energising the heart of one of Brighton’s largest student districts.

The inner-city suburb of Collingwood in Melbourne, Australia is known for its free-spirited atmosphere, thriving music, arts and food scene and its diverse architecture steeped in industrial heritage. Otter Place by Milieu is a boutique residential development that aims to capture the unique energy of this vibrant locale.

Once a neglected car yard – now a modern, mixed-use development with great sustainability credentials. Liv Apartments represent a new kind of neighbourhood.

Once an industrious Sydney flour mill, now the centrepiece of a unique mixed-use​‘village’ with homes, shops, cafés, parks, plazas, laneways and links to light rail.

As Australia’s biggest social and affordable housing development, Ivanhoe Estate in Sydney’s north is pioneering a new approach by blending social, private and affordable housing.

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.

In a series for The Property Tribune exploring affordable housing ideas, Alex Jones, Senior Associate at our Perth studio, writes that in an age where our households are getting smaller (but Australian homes remain among the largest in the world), thoughtfully designed apartments ─ such as the Hassell-designed 195 Pier Street build-to-rent project in Perth ─ remain a key ingredient of a diverse housing mix.

In a story on repurposing vacant office buildings into housing, Sav​ings​.com cites our Radical Reuse whitepaper for the Property Council of Australia, noting that ​“the big key to keeping costs down is in identifying the right buildings to convert in the first place”.

ArchitectureAU takes a closer look at Hassell’s design of the $100 million 29-storey mixed-use building that federal and state governments have given the tick of approval.

195 Pier Street build-to-rent (BTR) project designed by Hassell marks a significant step forward in addressing the pressing need for affordable and diverse housing in the Western Australian community.

A study by design studio Hassell, in partnership with Ethos Urban and the Property Council of Australia, found that around 90 pre-1990 office buildings in Melbourne’s CBD could be converted into 10,000−12,000 apartments, housing up to 20,000 people, through adaptive reuse.

Are designers, buyers and renters on the cusp of a whole new range of housing alternatives?

A Royal Commission into aged care in Australia found traditional models of residential aged care are failing. But there is opportunity ahead as we imagine new ways to create places where both the physical and mental wellbeing of residents is paramount.

Design collaborators Snøhetta + Hassell have won an international competition to transform Harbourside, a retail development spanning over 240 metres of Sydney’s waterfront at Darling Harbour.

There’s no denying COVID-19 has taken a toll on apartment living, but could our experience of the crisis actually improve high-rise housing? We’d say the answer is​‘yes’, judging from our recent experiences designing these developments.

The $900-million mixed-use precinct, Waterloo Metro Quarter, has been given the green light to begin construction in Sydney’s inner south.

Office, gym, cinema, boardroom, classroom… In 2020 the humble home has done it all. What does this mean for the future of the residential development sector?

How do cities that priced out the creative communities who gave them their identities bring them back? How do we make sure our cities are truly diverse, sustainable, and welcoming places?

Karingal Green is a completely different kind of aged care environment – something that’s been recognised through several recent award wins.

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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.

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