HDR is a creative firm for architecture, engineering and design with experience in Australia spanning over 40 years. Led by Susanne Pini, a regular contributor to SCN, our award-winning retail and mixed use sector has been a core part of our business its inception. We have been at the forefront of an evolution which has seen the full live, work, play mantra revolutionise the typically enclosed, private and isolated retail centre; instead becoming publicly engaging pieces of community infrastructure through the models of town centres, mixed use, and large, complex urban regeneration projects. Our approach to design is through a central theme of placemaking, while designing for human connection, wellness and community.