Practice Profile
HASSELL
Web:
Employees:
1000
Established:
1938
Location:
Melbourne
Founded in Australia in 1938 HASSELL is a single, privately owned international network of design studios. Each has the flexibility and autonomy to service local clients, and the advantages of access to our integrated culture, combined resources and collective experience. A multidisciplinary design practice, we are structured around the key disciplines of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and planning, with integrated sustainability and urban design capabilities. An interdisciplinary organisation, HASSELL combines learning and experience from all disciplines to inform our design work.
Spring Street Apartment
Located on the upper level of an apartment building on the fringe of Melbournes CBD, this residence occupies an entire floor. The generous spaces overlook surrounding gardens to the east, with city and bay views to the west. Supplementing the owners country property, the apartment reflects the couples commitment to a rigorous design aesthetic of [...]
AXA Asia Pacific Headquarters
The new AXA workplace brought together staff from separate sites around Melbournes CBD to create one AXA and established the institutions new head office for the Asia Pacific region. AXA has created a culture that is progressive yet remains committed to its solid heritage within the financial services sector and sought new premises that reflected [...]
Dalyellup College
Dalyellup College is a new school in a picturesque, tree filled site just outside the coastal south west city of Bunbury. The design is a ribbon of contemporary architectural spaces distinct learning communities integrated with specialist facilities – woven amongst retained trees that form a signature for the new school. A two storey building [...]
Epping to Chatswood Rail Link
The Epping to Chatswood Rail Link is a $2.35 billion expansion of the Metropolitan network, providing world class stations at Epping, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park and North Ryde. Signature entry pavilions establish the project identity. Draped in glass louvres they welcome, shelter and direct passengers. They capture light by day and beckon at night. They [...]
Ross Street Residence
HASSELL was approached to create the interior of a new house designed by Robert Mills Architects. Having established a design direction a collaborative process was undertaken to review relevant aspects of the architecture, with the goal to create a fully integrated house from the inside out. The owners sought to distinguish their house as an [...]
SA Water
The new SA Water building completes the enclosure of the South-Eastern corner of Victoria Square. Occupying a prominent site adjacent to St Francis Xavier Cathedral, it sits in a large public plaza that visually flows into the light-filled foyer. With a cafe, casual meeting areas and a signature sculptural function space, the ground floor is [...]
HASSELL Warry Street Studio
The new home of HASSELL gathers people together. The former Keatings Bread Factory building has been extensively refurbished to create a suite of open-plan interconnected studio and gathering spaces that reinforce HASSELL design philosophies. A new pavilion building creates a civic entry sequence and colonnaded courtyard. The central courtyard is the symbolic and physical gathering [...]
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CAPITheticAL shortlist announced
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Criticism in crisis? Justine Clark and Andrew Mackenzie in conversation
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2012 Brisbane Architecture Awards
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Andrew Burns wins London laneways project
