HASSELL is one of the 24 teams to be shortlisted for display at the
2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. The creative directors, John Gollings and Ivan Rijavec, received 129 submissions in a national competition, Designs for Australian Cities 2050+, run by the Australian Institute of Architects. The competition brief focuses on three of Australia’s most interesting urban regions – Sydney, Melbourne and Surfers Paradise, as they are ‘now’, and as they may be ‘when’ we reach 2100. The HASSELL team, which includes Professor Mike Young from the University of Adelaide and Ben Kilsby from Holopoint, will now proceed to Stage 2 of the design competition to develop and refine their design. Twelve entries will be selected for display in the two-part NOW + WHEN Australian Urbanism exhibition to be held at the Australian Pavilion in Venice in September 2010. The winning entries will be presented as a dynamic soundscape projected as high impact 3D stereoscopic images.