Gold Coast development: Razor thin luxury tower planned for Surfers Paradise

A Chinese developer wants to build one of the world’s thinnest towers here on the Gold Coast. Get your first look at the super luxury tower which has some incredible features.

A CHINESE developer has filed plans for what will be one of the world’s thinnest towers.

The super luxury 24-storey building, which will be known as Kaia, is planned for a beachfront site on The Esplanade at Surfers Paradise just metres from Cavill Ave.

Put forward by developer Liang Sun through his company Vividly, it will have 20 four-bedroom apartments across its 21 residential levels and will replace Driftwood, a small two-storey four-unit block.

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Kaia will be super-thin Picture: Supplied

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The whole site is just 433 sqm in size, with the tower set to take up 282 sqm of the site.

The project was filed this morning with the Gold Coast City Council

According to documents filed with the council, the tower will have just 80 bedrooms, with a density of one bedroom per 5.4 sqm.

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It’s planned for a Surfers Paradise site Picture: Supplied

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There will be 41 car spaces provided, across a five-level basement carpark.

There will be a fully automated parking stacker system.

On the first level there will be a mezzanine which includes a swimming pool and covered terrace.

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The development application was filed today. Picture: Supplied

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A planning report which will go before councillors describes the project as a having “a leadership role” in terms of contemporary architecture.

“It is an innovative and efficient building design on a constrained infill development site that has no capacity to be amalgamated,” the report said.

“It represents an innovative high-rise tower that advances the Gold Coast’s iconic skyline and demonstrates how infill development can be successfully undertaken within the light rail urban renewal corridor and the city’s centres.”

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The Driftwood unit complex.

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It is the latest super-thin tower proposed for the Gold Coast.

In early 2017 the Gold Coast Bulletin revealed plans for a $200 million, 44-storey residential project planned for Wharf St in southern Surfers Paradise.

It included 35 “skyhome” units taking out entire storeys with a floorplan ranging from 346-414 sqm, a two-level sub-penthouse and a three-storey penthouse.

That unnamed project, put forward by Brisbane-based developer Golden Gate Property, was to be 154m high and just 12m wide, giving it one of the tightest slender ratio’s in the world.

While approved by council the project is yet to be built.

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Driftwood as it appeared in the 1960s. Source: Gold Coast City Council Local Studies Library.