Harbour Town extension
Submitted by The Buchan Group
Harbour Town is Australia's largest outlet shopping destination. There are over 200 outlet retailers, plus a significant convenience retail precinct as well as other ancillary services and cinemas.
St Hilda's School centenary wall
Submitted by Willemsen Architecture
The Centenary Wall is a commemorative community, art and landscape tribute to the 14,000 students and staff of St Hilda's School since its beginning in 1912.
The Spit amenities block
Submitted by Gold Coast Waterways Authority and Ben Parker Architecture
The new amenities block at Doug Jennings Park, The Spit, is a piece of quality infrastructure that makes a valuable contribution to its site. Located on a formerly unloved part of the park, the structure signifies a new entry to the jetty and beach access.
Surf Parade Place Making project
Submitted by City Place Making, City of Gold Coast
Enhancing a busy, but dated precinct, this major upgrade of Surf Parade, Broadbeach delivers a flexible dining and event space that will play a pivotal role during the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth GamesTM. Surf Parade is the 'eat street' in Broadbeach and the venue for numerous international events, including Blues on Broadbeach.
Sports science building Bond University
Submitted by BDA Architecture
Using the campus trademark sandstone and sporting graphics under a soaring elegant roof, this expressive new building provides Bond University with a powerful, new architectural statement and an efficient integration of new and existing facilities on a sloping site.
Oasis Dental Palm Beach
Submitted by Clamroc Constructions
Oasis Dental at Palm Beach was an extremely satisfying project. The practitioners had a great vision for this centre and with a great collaboration of design and workmanship, they have delivered an exciting project which sets a new benchmark in this fast-growing industry and for the Palm Beach area and its community.
The Strand Coolangatta
Submitted by The Buchan Group
Along with Paradise Centre in Surfers Paradise and Oasis at Broadbeach, Showcase at Coolangatta was developed in the 1980s. The model provides a whole-of-block podium that includes retail, office and other associated uses, with residential towers above.
This project involves the re-branding of the podium – now The Strand – and significant changes to the Level 1 internal planning and the external areas facing Marine Parade and the beach. Coolangatta is a very tricky retail market. Local residents are older than other areas on the Gold Coast and tend to frequent the more traditional shopping centres in Tweed
KDV Golf & Tennis Academy
Submitted by Shiro Architects and Grummitt Planning
The Academy is part of a much larger vision of KDV Sport, which aims to create a top-class international sports training, accommodation and educational facility for primarily young individuals and teams both at professional and elite amateur levels.
Coomera Indoor Sports Centre
Submitted by BDA
The success of any public building can be judged by the usage and acceptance by the public. From day one, this building has been popular and almost fully booked by community and sporting groups. It addresses a latent demand by the growing Coomera community for first-class, flexible sporting facilities.
Gold Coast Urban Design Awards 2017 unbuilt category
Broadbeach Master Plan
Submitted by City Place Making, City of Gold Coast
A holistic precinct place making master plan for the Broadbeach Business Centre has been produced in consultation with the area's business leaders and stakeholders and was noted in March 2016 and endorsed in August 2016.
Ruby and Sapphire
Submitted by DBI
Ruby and Sapphire are 2, integrated urban renewal projects comprised of 6 towers accommodating 2615 apartments, an ice skating rink, amusement facilities, a supermarket, shops, restaurants and bars.