Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design
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How do you imagine the future of Surfers Paradise?
The Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design for our tourist heart aims to rekindle the love for Surfers Paradise as a safe and attractive destination for locals and visitors. It has been created based on community feedback on the concepts and ideas in the Surfers Paradise Place Making Plan in 2019. The community told us the most important improvements to be made are:
- Family friendly
- Pedestrian mobility
- Public safety
- Shade/street trees
The Concept Design proposes how Cavill Avenue, Cavill Mall and The Esplanade can be reimagined both by day and night. As the city moves into a new era, this revitalisation will create fresh, memorable experiences for locals and visitors alike in recognition of Surfers Paradise as a place of global relevance and a world-class destination.
Watch this video to see the vision for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation explained.
We are seeking your feedback on the Concept Design for Surfers Paradise.
How you can have your say:
- Complete our online survey and go into the draw to win one of five $500 Gift Vouchers (terms and conditions apply), or
- Share your ideas on the Concept Designs
Community consultation is open from 29 August to 26 September 2023.
How do you imagine the future of Surfers Paradise?
The Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design for our tourist heart aims to rekindle the love for Surfers Paradise as a safe and attractive destination for locals and visitors. It has been created based on community feedback on the concepts and ideas in the Surfers Paradise Place Making Plan in 2019. The community told us the most important improvements to be made are:
- Family friendly
- Pedestrian mobility
- Public safety
- Shade/street trees
The Concept Design proposes how Cavill Avenue, Cavill Mall and The Esplanade can be reimagined both by day and night. As the city moves into a new era, this revitalisation will create fresh, memorable experiences for locals and visitors alike in recognition of Surfers Paradise as a place of global relevance and a world-class destination.
Watch this video to see the vision for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation explained.
We are seeking your feedback on the Concept Design for Surfers Paradise.
How you can have your say:
- Complete our online survey and go into the draw to win one of five $500 Gift Vouchers (terms and conditions apply), or
- Share your ideas on the Concept Designs
Community consultation is open from 29 August to 26 September 2023.
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Place Strategy 1: Open to all
10 months agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.Jason M11 months agoMaintenance - The failure of the continuous improvements to Surfers has always been selecting the wrong materials and plants.
A Maintenance Management Plan should be included.
0 comment2Sand11 months agoLove the concept design. It would be great to have an area similar to the Southport rockpool where kids can enjoy.
1 comment11Jason M11 months agoAll plans create pinch points were cyclists, scooters, pedestrians and standing people will clash.
Keep the footpaths generous.
0 comment1Christina Nicholls10 months agoPlease, no Norfolk Pine trees.
Any other shady tree will do.
0 comment0Kinkabool11 months agoEuropean beach bars for Surfers paid by the vendors not the council..
I think the council need to review the costs of improvement. These costs are being passed into the residents by way of rate increases. I’m all for improving but please be mindful of not wasting taxpayers money which is what happens all the time
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Place Strategy 2: Supercharge the experience
10 months agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.Lisa Cary11 months agoQuality clean pavers in colour of sand, a huge fountain not necessarily at beach end & fountain has the following refer to short description
Huge interactive fountain with images of waves, a convey van, surfers & surf boards, dolphins/whales & on outside surrounded by lots of trees or a beautiful canopy of foliage all the way around the fountain with fake grass & lovely sitting nooks for families to have a picnic in the shade whilst gazing at fountain.
1 comment4RobLuxford11 months agoBuild in memorable moments
Proposed seating – joyless, hot, angular, hostile. Looks like 3D clip art. Needs to be more communal more flowing and welcoming. Take note of the very popular Surfers Paradise seat that people cheerily use for their family photos. Incorporate more of this. This is the Surfers Paradise people take home with them.
0 comment0Julie Manning11 months agoInclude an arbor down the centre of Mall. The single vehicle lane between roundabouts will create more traffic issues.
Focus on Iconic Australian Beach Culture
0 comment1RobLuxford11 months agoWant to supercharge the experience, the "parisols" wont cut it.
A) we can go much bigger with projecting images onto buildings. B) If we illuminate the palm trees we don’t need the "parisols". The “parisols” are a concrete folly to digitaly project onto and provide shade. I believe this idea will date very quickly. I can see a time where digital projections will be on the sky scrapers viewed from tower balconies across the city. If we illuminate the palm trees the canopy light show could easily make the parisols look underwhelming and redundant.
0 comment1stephendm10 months agoJust doing basically greenery will not solve help attract have idea to place winding aquarium through cavill ave. need better shop facades
unique aquarium concept. bright uniform shop facades and better seating to attract customers and international guests
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Place Strategy 3: Grow the Green
10 months agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.moi11 months agoThe shops located on the Highway are often too tacky and off-putting. How can this be improved to make the glitter strip more classy?
0 comment4RobLuxford11 months agoCutting down the Flame Trees?
And replace them with 50’s European sci fi concrete "parisols"? So if I am reading the plans right the poincianas that form the natural green Cavill Avenue “welcome arbour” appear to be being replaced by concrete “parisols” to make room for moving the road a few metres north. Is the idea to remove the dozen established “quintessential” Surfers Paradise trees which provide shade and luscious green with vibrant red flowers – and replace them with 50’s European sci fi concrete follies so we can move the road up a bit? Instead I would suggest the poincianas be retained and be thought of as part of a multi level natural canopy. This being the lower level opening up to higher palms either end. Flood and display lighting in the palms continue through the poincianas creating design continuity through light and shape. Design the road around the trees.
0 comment2Gold Coast rate payer10 months agoIncrease on-sreet & off-street cheap parking. Don't approve developments,which sell units with no on-site parking, eg. Meriton 76level tower
More Parking needed in Surfers Paradise
0 comment2RobLuxford11 months agoCan’t go wrong with more palms. Fabulous, exuberant, fountains of fun. Nothing says the tropics like palms, pandanas and frangiapani.
Too many of the plants look like they belong in the suburbs.
0 comment4misstoryjones10 months agoAim to re-create pockets of rainforest amongst the concrete jungle - we know that's possible from this 2005 council study
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Place Strategy 4: Amplify brand Surfers
10 months agoCLOSED: This ideas has concluded.RobLuxford11 months agoSurfers Paradise, playful, fun, light, unpretentious.
The project needs a vision brief. Surfers Paradise is a place where people come to drop their cares, dig their toes in the sand, eat, smile and relax. A place Australia associates with bright sun and good times. A place where people live their dream. We bring the world’s best here and make it our own. Exciting, fresh, exuberant ideas. Bold playful, progressive unapologetic. The thumping, pumping heart of the Gold Coast. Surfers Paradise is about joy. Joy is about round things, pops of bright colour, symmetrical shapes, a sense of abundance and multiplicity, a feeling of lightness or elevation. The Surfers-paradise-place-making-plan told us what the issues are. We need to fold that information back into a brief that sets a vision for where we want to take Surfers Paradise. Something fabulous, flamboyant, stylish and fun. Something that treats Cavill not as a mall but as one of the world’s great boulevards that includes the Esplanade and river connection as part of whole, not just adjacent locales. We need unifying design elements to run right through the boulevard from river to shore. Ideas that give us hero vistas, exquisite glimpses, unique experiences and sense of connection. We need stories to walk with us as we soak in the natural wonders. New stories and ancient ones that make our connection more memorable and more meaningful. We can do fun and food for the soul at the same time.
1 comment2SunshineState10 months agoAdd seasonal art-and-design inspired installations into the mix
Seasonal or less permanent structures in smaller spaces or marking specific places would keep the place 'fresh' and colourful. - For example in Portugal, Agueda’s Umbrella Street Project began in 2011 as part of the city’s annual Art Festival. Each summer, canopies of colourful umbrellas shade narrow streets and alleys. - At Surfers this could take inspiration from HOTA Gallery’s exterior geometry and feature multi-coloured Voronoi pattern to engage the public in shared experience of light colour and form and maybe linked to HOTA's program. - Or floral and foliage could be the theme of quirky installations in intimate gathering spaces, inspired by combinations of plants and structure, like the dome-like vine-covered huts and towers designed by Jean Nouvel for Parc del Centre del Poblenou 2008.
0 comment1SunshineState10 months agoMore imaginative shade structure design
A combination of foliage and built structures is commendable, but designs depicted are predictable. And static. The Esplanade pavilion design is way too heavy-handed, and Mall shade structure design way too underdone, kind of lifeless. 4 ideas: (1) think differently about materials, form, light and shade - eg Take inspiration from the elegant curved line of The Sands balconies, or recall the breeze blocks of 1960s houses on Chevron Island and use as roofs and let a filigree of light through. (2) be inspired by the big gesture - eg The Metropol Parasol, Seville, or South Beach Shade Canopy, Singapore. (3) Bring less permanent, seasonal installations into the mix - eg The Umbrella Street Project Agueda, Portugal coincides with summer and an annual arts festival. (4) make these structures self-sustaining as collectors of energy for lighting and water for plants.
0 comment1SunshineState10 months agoEnliven the shade and shelter with light and form
Shade canopies can take different forms and use different materials. For example, contrast between transparency and solidity, while providing shade and shelter. The designs for the Serpentine Pavilion by Toyo Ito and Cecil Belmand in 2002, and by Frank Gehry in 2008 both did this in different ways.
0 comment0Teeraze11 months agoLight Projection tied in with water play area
As per you concept of tying in all the spaces, imagine if the light projections on the parasols tied in with the water play area at night... with recorded music, lights and water.
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Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design
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Surfers Paradise Place Making Plan (2019)
Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design has finished this stageEngagement concluded, feedback used to shape the current Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design.
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Community consultation (2023)
Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept Design is currently at this stageThis consultation is open from 29 August to 26 September 2023.
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Under Review
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignContributions to this consultation are closed for evaluation and review. The project team will report back on key outcomes.
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Final report
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignThe final outcomes of the consultation are documented here. This may include a summary of all contributions collected as well as recommendations for future action.
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Stage 1A (Cavill Mall) : Delivery
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignExpected to commence mid 2025.
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Stage 1B: Delivery
this is an upcoming stage for Surfers Paradise Revitalisation Concept DesignDelivery date is pending outcomes of this consultation.
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Stage 1C: Delivery
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Stage 2: Delivery
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