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.
Quick snapshot of the last 6 months at Norfolk Burleigh Heads. Hutchinson Builders making great progress onsite, with the basement levels completed and the level 2 slab recently poured.
Hutchinson Builders are progressing with the construction of Forme’s Goodwin Terrace icon, Norfolk Burleigh Heads. Forme director David Calvisi confirmed the bulk excavation is now complete and the 650mm thick post-tensioned raft slab has been poured.
Construction will commence this month on Luna, a considered collection of eight full-floor residences on the revered Burleigh Heads beachfront address of Goodwin Terrace.
Prominent developers Forme appointed multi award-winning builders McNab Construction to the luxury boutique development. Demolition of the existing building, formerly occupied by The Fish House restaurant, has been completed.
As the sun sets on the tenure of The Fish House restaurant on February 28, a new phase of beachfront perfection will soon rise from its revered Goodwin Terrace site. Luna is a considered collection of just eight full-floor residences set against a breathtaking ocean and skyline backdrop.
A Gold Coast couple have secured the coveted penthouse in luxury new Burleigh Heads beachfront destination, Luna, ahead of its official launch on December 21.
Demolition has begun on roslyn units in anticipation of Burleigh’s new beachfront icon, Norfolk. It comes as Forme director David Calvisi announces Hutchinson Builders has been appointed to construct the luxury 10-level project.
Third time’s a charm for young property developers breaking new ground with Gold Coast icons. Two former schoolmates at the helm of prominent Queensland development companies Forme and Synergy Property Partners have unleashed a new level of sophistication to the southern Gold Coast beachfront.
New Burleigh Beach icon on track to sell out ahead of construction. Limited opportunities remain to buy into a new beachfront icon as construction for Norfolk Burleigh Heads tracks for August commencement.
New Gold Coast icon to rise above Burleigh beach.
Innovative Queensland development company Forme is ready to unleash a sophisticated beachfront project that will forever change the residential landscape of Burleigh Heads.
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