Nobby Beach place making project

Location: Corner of Lavarack Road and Gold Coast Highway, Nobby Beach

Design: City Place Making

Build/installation: City of Gold Coast

Cost: $472,000

Completed: In 4 stages, 2016

The Nobby Beach Neighbourhood Centre is a commercial strip fronting the eastern side of the Gold Coast Highway between Chairlift Avenue and Wave Street, Mermaid Beach.

The centre is popular with locals and visitors day and night with trendy cafés, bars and restaurants as well as the beach. It has a local feel with older characteristic Gold Coast small-scale built form.

Drawing inspiration from its relaxed character, the design integrates with the fabric of Nobby Beach to enhance this gateway into a rich sense of place and provides space for social interaction, respite and amenity. The materials palette represents the beach/urban feel of the centre.

Project details

• Distinctive honed footpath
• Feature decking with rustic stone and timber seating
• Lighting and shade structures
• Gardens introducing texture, scent and colour
• Street furniture including litter bins and bicycle racks

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