Forme is proud to be a silver sponsor of the Holy Spirit School Spring Fair 2024, the New Farm school’s biggest fundraising event.

As one of the most recognisable architectural icons in Australia, it was only fitting for Norfolk to feature in BOSS HUNTING’s first hard-copy magazine. 

Featuring buildings equipped with meandering balconies and terraces that fan out like leaves, this roundup collects 10 of the most dramatic sculptural balconies published on Dezeen.

Derived from the majestic Norfolk pines that grace the coastal scenery of Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia, Koichi Takada Architects have brought forth an extraordinary mixed-use residential project. This artful creation blends seamlessly with its surroundings, embodying organic curves and linear screening that harmonize with the environment and incorporate passive design principles.

Australian architecture is characterized by an alluring blend of cultural influences and unique natural landscapes that stretch across the continent. From the timelessness of traditional aboriginal dwellings to the striking contemporary structures that dot urban centres like Sydney and Melbourne, Australian architecture reflects the nation’s dynamic spirit and ever-evolving nature. Colonial architecture, influenced by British and European styles, left an indelible mark on Australia’s built environment. 

Koichi Takada, Director of Koichi Takada Architects, attests to the “psychological benefits to nature-filled spaces. Studies show a reduction in stress, better sleep quality and stronger human relationships. In other words, if nature thrives, we thrive too.”

Forget the tacky bling of years gone by: this Queensland drawcard has reinvented itself.

WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD OF AUSTRALIAN DESIGN FOR 2022. COMPILED BY THE VOGUE LIVING TEAM.
Koichi Takada Architects, Sydney

Norfolk has won the 2022 Architectural Master Prize Awards (APMP) Exterior Architectural Photography award – Best of the Best, Residential category.

Norfolk Burleigh Heads, Gold Coast
Architecture by Koichi Takada, Interiors by Mim Design

Inspired by the towering Norfolk pine trees standing sentry along Burleigh’s picturesque coastline, architect Koichi Takada has designed this sculptural building to sit harmoniously in the landscape. Born in Japan and based in Sydney, Takada has a talent for nestling nature into urban designs. With wavy, overlapping balconies shading each other and moveable screens to give privacy and sun protection, this building will embrace passive design principles to reduce its carbon footprint. It will also look beautiful, with undulating timber batons on the exterior.

Norfolk’s detailed and dynamic sculptural form continues to impress with the Burleigh Heads project awarded 2022 Medium-Density Residential Development of the Year at The Urban Developer Awards for Industry Excellence.

Forme, in association with Hutchinson Builders and McNab, have taken out both residential construction awards at this year’s Gold Coast Master Builders Housing and Construction Awards.

Another award for Norfolk Burleigh Heads. This time awarded Australian Institute of Architects State Award (Queensland) for Residential Architecture – Multiple Housing.

Today’s featured project has been masterfully shot by Australian architectural photographer Scott Burrows. The Norfolk is a multi-residential apartment in Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Koichi Takada Architects and features gorgeous use of organic shapes. The Norfolk sits adjacent to one of the Gold Coast’s southern beach strips – Burleigh Heads.

There’s just something about a market and we challenge you to find a human who wouldn’t rather stock up for the week at an uber-fresh and friendly market, rather than a grocery chain store. This is precisely why we got all the feels when we recently visited Tugun Market Co. Servicing the community from pantry to plate, they specialise in fresh produce, high-quality butcher meats, gourmet foods, health foods, organic products, vegan products, stunning blooms and gorgeous gifty style homewares.

The hot spot continues to surge, with a new breed of residential development setting elegant beachside benchmarks.

Wandering around the farmer’s markets with a coffee in hand is undoubtedly one of our favourite ways to fill our fridge and pantry. Sometimes, though, life gets in the way, or you make impromptu plans to have people over for dinner and need to pick up a few extra nibbles. In news that will excite local-produce procurers, gourmands and turophiles (fanciers of cheese), the family-owned-and-operated Tugun Market Co has recently unveiled a seriously impressive renovation. Take a peek …

Norfolk Burleigh Heads has taken out two categories in the 2022 Architizer A+Awards, the world’s largest architectural honours program with entries submitted by 80 countries.

The Urban Developer is delighted to announce the finalists for our Awards for Industry Excellence in 2022 sponsored by Trilogy Funds.

Calvisi said the aim with Norfolk was to create a product which the Coast hasn’t seen before.

Resembling a modern sculptural pinecone, Norfolk Burleigh Heads is shaped with over-lapping organic balcony forms that jut out and form a soft edge to an otherwise unanimated building.

Plus Architecture has announced the completion of its Luna project at Burleigh Heads.

A select group of Australian developers are finalising the details of three boutique apartment projects that are quickly redefining luxury living.

Queensland developer Forme has returned to Fortitude Valley’s up-market James Street precinct, lodging plans for a second development in as many months.

The new 10-story residential tower, Norfolk, by Koichi Takada Architects is a perfect example of biomimcry in architecture. Inspired by the Norfolk Pines near its site of Burleigh Heads on the Australian coast, this structure mimics the organizational logic of the Norfolk pinecone. The pinecone uses overlapping layers to protect its seeds within. In the same way, this project uses undulating and oversized floor slabs to provide shade for residents.

Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has completed a mixed-use apartment block on Queensland’s Gold Coast featuring retractable slatted wooden screens and thin balconies that reference the form of a pinecone.

Located on Goodwin Terrace, a strip of coastline at the southern end of Burleigh Heads Beach, the 1,012-square-metre seafront site has been developed for property developer FORME.

The Gold Coast boomed as much as anywhere in the country, with interstate immigration still seeing thousands move from the southern states. Queensland developers were among some of the most active, and busy, in 2021.

When the scaffolding finally came down from a new apartment building on the Gold Coast, social media was flooded with photos taken by awestruck locals.

No one had ever seen anything like it; a building inspired by, and a celebration of, a nearby group of heritage-listed Norfolk pine trees, with a series of architectural curves mimicking their cone-like seed pods.

Koichi Takada Architects has completed a mixed-use residential building in Burleigh Heads, Australia, whose design was inspired by the local Norfolk pine trees.

A developer has submitted plans to extend one of Australia’s most successful retail high streets and create a new precinct, with three homes already snapped up and ready to be removed.

A new development application by Brisbane-based Forme has been submitted which will expand James James Street towards New Farm and continue the popular retail high street’s unique subtropical architecture.

James Street, which has largely developed an architectural style of its own, through a well orchestrated evolution of developments would receive its second medium scale commercial building which is proposed for 75-85 James Street, Fortitude Valley.

Local developer Forme has lodged plans for a mixed-use precinct in Fortitude Valley’s up-market James Street precinct, a few kilometres from Brisbane’s CBD.

The team behind sell-out Gold Coast development Norfolk has joined forces again, this time for a 17-storey apartment tower, also at Burleigh Heads.

The half-floor residence is the last remaining apartment, with 90 per cent selling off the plan in the two months after the project launch last year.

All eight full–floor residences in luxury Burleigh beachfront project, Luna, have now been secured.