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.
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.
These are among the Gold Coast’s most influential people.
The powerbrokers, movers and shakers, those at the top of their game, celebrities, entrepreneurs and CEOs who are putting the city on the map. Our journalists and editors have spent weeks debating whose influence and work matters most in 2022 – and now it’s your turn to read, argue, ponder and share the second instalment: development and construction heavyweights.
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.
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.
Its Fortitude Valley pop-ups have been a whopping success attracting long queues with wood-fired treats, now Agnes Bakery has announced where and when it will open for good.
Pictured above are: Co-owners Ty Simon and Ben Williamson will open Agnes Bakery in James St, New Farm. Picture: Liam Kidston.
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.
They’ve submitted plans to the City of Gold Coast council for a 17 level tower of just 30 apartments, designed by the renowned architect Koichi Takada.
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.
Prominent Queensland business entrepreneurs and philanthropists Cathie Reid and Stuart Giles have bought a beachfront apartment in one of the Gold Coast’s most luxurious new developments. The co-founders of the Icon Cancer Care Group and the Epic Good Foundation took to social media this week to reveal their latest investment — a custom, two-level beach house in a new boutique project in Burleigh Heads.
Norfolk’s unique dual-level beach house of 539m2 has been secured as construction of the Goodwin Terrace icon tracks for April completion. With exclusive park and beach frontage, the private residence includes a private pool, social bar, entertainment room, media lounge, and five bedrooms including a substantial master wing.
All eight full–floor residences in luxury Burleigh beachfront project, Luna, have now been secured.
Luna tower at Burleigh Heads has prefabricated lift core and stair well to show off beacfront views and speed up construction.
BURLEIGH is the Coast’s new construction mecca with more than $5 billion of development under way or in the pipeline. Interstate demand for the popular postcode’s new developments, Luna and Norfolk Burleigh, is “off the charts” with $100 million in pre-sales. COVID-19 has failed to dampen interest, with five times more cranes in the city as there are active cases.
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Forme’s presence on Goodwin Terrace is reaching new heights as construction progresses on its luxury beachfront destination, Norfolk.
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