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Sense of belonging: Anne Street Garden Villas
On the Gold Coast, a series of affordable, climate-responsive dwellings clustered around a communal garden space is driven by the architect’s desire to help residents develop a personal connection with their home.
ResidentialElegant pragmatism: Light Years Skin Studio
Sculptural formations of joinery and a trio of individual treatment pods within shrouds of sheer curtaining distinguish the unique interior of Light Years Skin Studio on Queensland’s Gold Coast, designed by Maher Design.
Commercial‘Peak Voronoi’: HOTA Gallery
The design for Australia’s largest regional art gallery encompasses convivial interiors to attract a broad audience, while its bold exterior repeats the motif used by ARM in previous structures for the Gold Coast’s cultural precinct.
Public / culturalA determined rural life: Long Road House
In the countryside of south-east Queensland, this new residence makes a compelling case for rural living, offering the temptation to commune in private with nature.
ResidentialPenthouse M by CJH Studio
From 1980s glam to calm minimalism, this Gold Coast apartment has been transformed into an understated home that suits its young family’s lifestyle.
Residential‘A mini urban landscape’: Cantala Avenue House
A nuanced understanding of the Gold Coast’s colourful heritage, as well as its local quirks and character, is embedded in this neighbourly family home.
ResidentialTropical textures: Cove House
A thoughtful response to its unique setting and climate in the Gold Coast’s Sanctuary Cove, this house, by Justin Humphrey Architect, embodies principles of subtropical modern architecture to create a textured home for living and entertaining.
ResidentialSubtle occupation: Tierney Drive House
At once fluid and contained, this family home embraces the opportunities for connection and retreat offered by its sloping, bush-bound site near the Gold Coast’s Currumbin Creek.
ResidentialVoronoi verve: Home of the Arts Outdoor Stage
The Gold Coast’s new outdoor stage cleverly melds landscape and architecture to provide a flexible, functional and surprising space for future gatherings.
Landscape / urbanLampposts of progress: Hi-Lights
These new additions to the Gold Coast landscape by Lot-ek, Office Feuerman and Urban Art Projects engage with notions of sustainable luxury.
Landscape / urbanTheatrical and meticulous: The Kitchens
This new market hall, designed by ACME, Landini Associates and The Buchan Group, is a theatrical and meticulously crafted insertion in the Robina Town Centre redevelopment and a crucial contribution to an enriched urban space.
Commercial‘Silent and self-assured’: KDV Golf and Tennis Academy
In its award-winning redevelopment of a much-loved Carrara golf course, Shiro Architects has crafted a “silent and self-assured” building that points to the Bauhaus and the heroes of modernist architecture.
Public / cultural‘An authentic architecture of materiality’: M3565 Main Beach Apartments
This prestigious beachside apartment building by Virginia Kerridge Architect stands out from its neighbours by virtue of its articulate materiality and sensitive human scale.
ResidentialBuilding for a Future Gold Coast
Sheona Thomson considers the lasting impact of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games venues on communities, “where arguably infrastructure is playing catch-up to growth.”
Public / culturalHome game: Parklands
The 2018 Commonwealth Games Village, designed by Arkhefield, ARM and Archipelago, optimizes the potential of its Parklands site and sets a precedent for considered medium-density development on the Gold Coast.
ResidentialBeachy graphics: Burleigh Street House
Embodying its local beachside context, this alteration and addition reconsiders the suburban status quo.
ResidentialBox of secrets: Francis Street House
A generous family home by ME made from equal helpings of inventiveness and restraint.
ResidentialAbedian School of Architecture
Bond University’s new learning centre by CRAB Studio is a triumph of the occupant over the object.
EducationPeter Cook’s tour of CRAB’s Bond University building
The Soheil Abedian School of Architecture for Bond University is taking shape.
EducationHinze Dam Visitor Centre and Parkland
Malcolm Middleton Architects and AECOM add a human dimension to civic infrastructure.
Landscape / urban, Public / cultural