Harry Triguboff Takes Gold Coast Tower To New Heights In Surfers Paradise

HIGH-rise king Harry Triguboff has taken the wraps off a tower that will take the high life to a new level in Surfers Paradise.
The 90-level beachfront skyscraper will replace a 22-level building on The Esplanade that is a relic of the 1960s.

The highest apartments in the yet-to-be-named tower will look down on the units in the Gold Coast’s tallest building, the 78-floor Q1 super tower.

The project also will nudge out, in terms of floors, the 89-level Spirit building planned by Hong Kong’s Forise group.

Mr Triguboff’s Meriton group has agreed to buy the International Beach Resort, originally the Apollo, for $58 million in a deal that settles on February 28 and will start demolition next month.

The 83-year- old developer said that Meriton, hard on the heels of exchanging contracts on the property in October, ran a design competition to challenge top architects to come up with a design for the premier tower in Surfers Paradise.

A design submitted by SJB, a Sydney architectural practice which operates along the eastern seaboard and has undertaken previous Meriton assignments, was the winner.

“The Surfers site is the best in town — the sort of property I’ve always dreamed of having on the Gold Coast,” said Mr Triguboff.

“The city’s displaying verve and vibrancy like I haven’t seen for years and it’s given me the confidence to make a big investment.

“With a site like this one, the sky’s the limit and we will do the Gold Coast proud.

“We’ll also do our buyers proud — the very clever design means every apartment will have ocean views.”

The tower, on a 3833sq m site, is expected to have around 270 serviced apartments and 300 residential apartments.

Mr Triguboff said a development application was being prepared and hopefully would be lodged by the end of February.

Depending on the outcome of that application, work on the yet-to- be-named tower could be under way by June.

Alexia Fisher, Meriton’s head of architecture, said the Meriton tower would be split vertically into three distinctive tiers, each defined by coloured glass panels.

Circular halo effects atop each tier would be lit at night, creating a beacon along the foreshore.

Ms Fisher said the building would include a lobby cafe, two restaurants in its podium, and separate indoor pools and recreational facilities for serviced apartment guests and for owners.

A resort-style podium garden inspired by Miami art deco would include a vast timber deck surrounding a communal pool and with shade from palm trees and canopies.

There would be three levels of basement parking, with further parking in the podium.

Meriton is buying the International Beach Resort from Singapore businesswoman Gertrude Guok, who bought it for $11.4 million in 1993.

Source: Gold Coast Bulletin 16 February 2017

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