Sophie Kebbell is an interior designer from Australian Design Review‘s 30UNDER30 cohort of 2024/2025, and also a senior interior designer for Melbourne-based design practice Hassell. We speak with the future-focused creative to learn more about their artistic inspirations and how it feels to be among ADR‘s select group of 30UNDER30 members. Australian Design Review: How […]
As we grapple with the dual pressures of a housing crisis and an ageing population, Hassell principal Ben Rees and residential sector co-leader Jeremy Schluter explore the emergence of a unique architectural hybrid: the medical-residential complex. It’s not just a trend; it’s a potential paradigm shift, a lifeboat in the challenging landscape of modern urban […]
Australia’s newest city, Bradfield City Centre in Dharug Country (Western Sydney), is home to the First Building by design firm Hassell in consultation with First Nations cultural research and design agency Djinjama. Photo: Mark Syke As the name suggests, it is the first building designed for the city of Bradfield and the surrounding Aerotropolis, a […]
Hassell won the Institutional award at the 2024 Interior Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for the Michael Kirby Building at Macquarie University in Sydney. The international design practice took what was once a concrete administration building built in 1985 and cracked it wide open, offering students and staff of Macquarie University’s Law School and Department of […]
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