7 News Australia

Inside Look at the New High-Tech Atlassian Central

It’s a high-rise office with no car park, little heating, and some of the building is made of wood. We’ve been given an inside look at the new high-tech Atlassian Central that puts a premium on energy efficiency.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Atlassian’s Revolutionary ‘Habitat’ Tower

Behind scaffolding and cranes, the new $1.45 billion futuristic headquarters of homegrown tech giant Atlassian is fast rising high above Central Station. Built of green concrete, timber and structural steel to cement its world leading climate-friendly credentials, Atlassian Central is also revolutionary for its vision of what high-rise office work might look like in the future. “We’re not just putting up another office tower,” Atlassian’s chief executive and co-founder Mike Cannon Brookes said. “We’re rethinking what a workplace can be.”

Archisearch

Chris Sharples Speaks at ESO 2025

After a brief introduction of SHoP Architects’ history over 30 years of work, Chris Sharples began by highlighting where process needs to go in terms of the practice of architecture. He also emphasized the importance of connecting the academy and the profession as a practice and how that can inspire and lead to innovation in terms of materials and technologies.

AIA NY

SHoP Wins AIA Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor, the Chapter’s highest distinction, is conferred to an architect or architecture firm for a distinguished body of work and high professional standing. Founding Principals Gregg Pasquarelli, FAIA, and Bill Sharples accepted the award on behalf of SHoP. “I think about where we are today in the world,” Sharples said. “If people are going to solve the challenges that we’re facing, whether it’s climate change, geopolitics, construction, housing crisis, it’s the people in this room—the architects, engineers, builders, developers. We are problem solvers.”

State Magazine

Department Celebrates New Embassy Campus in Tegucigalpa

Designed by SHoP Architects, with the support of local firm Jorge Caballero Arquitectos, and constructed by B.L. Harbert International, the new embassy facility reduces risk and cost associated with security and maintenance while enhancing resilience to natural hazards. Art installations that include Honduran and U.S. artists demonstrate a commitment to cross-cultural collaboration.

Untapped New York

Why is the FDR Drive Purple?

In the latest episode of the Untapped New York Podcast, Michelle Young tracks down the answer to her latest burning question about New York City: Why is the FDR Drive Purple? Michelle went to the source and interviewed Gregg Pasquarelli, founding partner at SHoP Architects and Cathy Jones, project director at SHoP, who designed the master plan for the East River Waterfront.

Dezeen

Brooklyn Needed the Brooklyn Tower

A large part of New York City’s image as the self-described greatest city in the world stems from Manhattan’s defining skyline, wondrous even to jaded natives, while Brooklyn labored under a stubborn inferiority complex. From here on, though, the Brooklyn Tower seems to say, ‘it’s all systems go’. We are not Topeka. We’re big, we’re bold, we’re badass, and we’re nobody’s kid brother.

U.S. Department of State

State Department Celebrates New U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa

Designed by SHoP Architects with the support of local firm Jorge Caballero Arquitectos and constructed by B.L. Harbert International, the project created over 1,000 jobs for Hondurans and contributed over $42 million to the local economy. The new embassy demonstrates building performance optimization, as evidenced by the pending US Green Building Council’s certification in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design due to sustainable strategies including solar panels power generation, the recycling of rainwater for irrigation, and the use of local materials.

New York Magazine

Imagining a City of Wood

For its LaGuardia terminal, SHoP focused on the combination of digital technology and mass customization that allows the finesse of carpentry to be adapted to the vast scale and industrial rhythms of contemporary construction. “We’re bringing Arts and Crafts into the 21st century,” says Christopher Sharples, one of SHoP’s co-founding principals.

Dezeen

Bioplastic Floor Panel Boasts the Strength of Steel

US researchers working with SHoP Architects have created a potential alternative to steel and concrete as a structural floor material: recyclable panels made entirely from bioplastic and wood flour. The prefabricated panel was made using 3D printing by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Maine.