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Country - Australia
State - Qld
Location - Gold Coast
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The seven social housing units in Southport promote a sense of connection, safety and order for residents.

Sense of belonging: Anne Street Garden Villas

Anna O'Gorman Architecture

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.

Residential
Treatment pods are enveloped in diaphanous curtains, providing privacy.

Elegant pragmatism: Light Years Skin Studio

Maher Design

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
HOTA Gallery is the third realized structure in a masterplan for the Gold Coast’s cultural and landscape precinct, completed by ARM in collaboration with landscape architect Topotek 1.

‘Peak Voronoi’: HOTA Gallery

ARM Architecture, City of Gold Coast

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 / cultural
A gabled roof form, prominent chimney and corrugated steel cladding recall the area’s agricultural heritage.

A 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.

Residential
The staircase treads and banister have been filled in to accentuate the sculptural form.

Penthouse M by CJH Studio

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
Cantala Avenue House by ME.

‘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.

Residential
The floating roof ties together the home’s concrete and timber elements and gives lightness to its form.

Tropical 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.

Residential
The primary living space in Tierney Drive House is bush-bound, locating its inhabitants in a kind of pre-suburban site condition.

Subtle occupation: Tierney Drive House

ME

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.

Residential
The core of the Home of the Arts (HOTA) stage and theatre spaces reside beneath a “mountain” landscape made up of succulents, rainforest species and grasses from the wider Gold Coast region.

Voronoi verve: Home of the Arts Outdoor Stage

ARM Architecture, Topotek 1, CUSP, City of Gold Coast

The Gold Coast’s new outdoor stage cleverly melds landscape and architecture to provide a flexible, functional and surprising space for future gatherings.

Landscape / urban
Hi-Lights by Lot-ek.

Lampposts of progress: Hi-Lights

Lot-ek Architecture and Design

These new additions to the Gold Coast landscape by Lot-ek, Office Feuerman and Urban Art Projects engage with notions of sustainable luxury.

Landscape / urban
Regular ribs and strips of honey-coloured timber are key to the character of the project and a nod to the Queensland tradition of timber construction.

Theatrical 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
A generous, cantilevered soffit heralds the arrival sequence to the KDV Golf and Tennis Academy. The first-floor swimming pool is first revealed as an “intriguing shimmer of blue” in its mirrored surface.

‘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
Carefully considered landscaping by Cardno responds to the natural surrounds and enhances the amenity of the adjoining public beach access.

‘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.

Residential
The Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre houses fifteen courts designed to accommodate netball, indoor soccer, badminton and other sports.

Building 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 / cultural
The entry facade is a playful composition of blocks of colour and battened screens on a white background.

Beachy graphics: Burleigh Street House

Embodying its local beachside context, this alteration and addition reconsiders the suburban status quo.

Residential
When viewed from the street, the house appears as a dark box clad in compressed fibre cement sheeting and striped with battens.

Box of secrets: Francis Street House

A generous family home by ME made from equal helpings of inventiveness and restraint.

Residential
Abedian School of Architecture

Abedian School of Architecture

Bond University’s new learning centre by CRAB Studio is a triumph of the occupant over the object.

Education
Render of the entrance to Soheil Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University.

Peter Cook’s tour of CRAB’s Bond University building

The Soheil Abedian School of Architecture for Bond University is taking shape.

Education
An oversized off-form concrete portal marks the entry.

Hinze Dam Visitor Centre and Parkland

Malcolm Middleton Architects and AECOM add a human dimension to civic infrastructure.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural