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Globalisation, climate change, urbanisation, and digitisation present new opportunities and challenges for how we live. In this fast-changing context, we bring together the best designers and thinkers in a unique collaborative process that results in both beautiful design and measurable value.
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We work across architecture, landscape architecture, interior design and urban design – a rich multi-disciplinary mix of skills and perspectives that unlocks the economic, social and cultural value of projects. We combine our creative design expertise with capabilities in strategy, research, technology and experience design, and we regularly collaborate with experts and partners from further afield.
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The seemingly simple task of relocating the ticket office and expanding the toilet facilities presents an opportunity to create a space with distinct regional characteristics and contemporary value. The goal was to ensure that visitors gain a lasting impression of the venue through their experience. To achieve this, the design drew inspiration from the site’s prominent features—bamboo forests and canals. Photo: Hassell
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By swapping sterile, clinical environments for a bright, welcoming setting, STARS recognises the benefits of exposure to natural light and access to green spaces. It also reflects evidence demonstrating the value of uninterrupted care – staying in the same place, seeing the same medical staff and feeling safe and familiar.
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This new ‘green heart’ of South Bank Parklands supports Brisbane’s leisure and recreation needs at a time when inner-city population growth is putting pressure on the city’s existing parks and public spaces. Visitors can relax and gather on the riverfront’s expansive events lawn, rainforest and subtropical pavilion, which replaces restaurants damaged in the 2011 floods.
Designed alongside the University of Melbourne’s leading academic researches in the fields of green roofs and urban horticulture, the Burnley Living Roofs provide purpose-built facilities for the University to continue pioneering research in green infrastructure.
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The West Bund is a vibrant, revitalised destination that now attracts people from all over Shanghai as a riverside art and cultural centre, with a previously inaccessible waterfront area having been turned into a drawcard, offering a connection to nature, healing, leisure and respite.
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Designed around the traditional 24-season Chinese lunar calendar, Central Green Forest Park’s mosaic of flexible forest rooms emphasise the changing seasons and will change as the park matures over time. From bird watching areas, playgrounds, botanic gardens, sports fields, observation hills and sculpture parks, the patchwork of rooms offers endless recreation possibilities.
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When is a Tower not just a tower? – When it is a workplace that unites a previously disparate company, a bustling urban precinct, and a heritage location revitalising the heart of a city.
Having redefined the skyline of Perth, Western Australia, with its 45-storey premium commercial tower, Brookfield Place also redefined the city centre at ground level, turning a dormant city block full of boarded up heritage buildings into a vibrant retail and entertainment precinct.
Dandenong’s Afghan Bazaar is the only recognised Afghan precinct in Melbourne, Australia. It has evolved naturally over time into a community hub centred around Thomas Street, home to a high concentration of Afghan businesses, ranging from cafés and grocers to social support service providers.
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This innovative design scheme, which won an international competition, locates the library underground, allowing for a significant new urban plaza to be realised at street level. It fuses built form and landscape to create flexible public amenities within a verdant open setting. Hassell has been engaged as the landscape architect to develop the plaza design, using the competition scheme as a point of reference.
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For the first time in over 110 years, the security fences have been removed from the Sunset Heritage Precinct in Perth, Western Australia, and is open to the public. Once known as Sunset Hospital, the precinct is located atop a beautiful scarp overlooking the Swan River and is full of stories and character for local residents.
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