First look exclusive: DVB Projects doubles down in Broadbeach
DVB Projects, the developer behind Broadbeach's Sea Glass development that is currently in market, is doubling down in the burgeoning suburb.
DVB, led by Dean Brown, has filed plans for a similar tower at 137 Old Burleigh Road, a 1,156 sqm site near the Old Burleigh Road and Queensland Avenue roundabout that is currently home to the 12-unit, 1980s block Gala.
They've called on Rothelowman again to handle the design of the 105-metre, 32-level building that will have 39 half-floor and full-floor apartments and a two-level penthouse.
The apartments will rise from level seven, above an extensive podium and three basement levels that will home 93 parking spaces and a whole floor of amenities on the sixth level of the podium. That will feature a 20-metre infinity pool, hot and cold plunge pools, a gym with a sauna, a barbecue and alfresco area and a private kitchen and dining space.
Above the half-floor apartments will start. They will each have 230 sqm of internal living space and a further 25 sqm of balcony area.
The half-floors will run to level 21 where the full-floor, 460 sqm apartments kick in. They will have four ensuite bedrooms, one a master with a dressing room, as well as two living areas and a separate home office.
Crowning the building will be another four-bedroom whole-floor apartment, but that will get a private rooftop level with a swimming pool and adjoining deck, a gym with adjoining lawn, and a kitchen and entertaining space with another terrace.
In their plans submitted to the Gold Coast City Council, Rothelowman said 137 Old Burleigh Road represents a unique approach in contextual urbanism and architecture.
"Situated one city block from the beach within a neighbourhood undergoing rapid gentrification, the site plays a pivotal role in the traditions and characteristics unique to beachside communities.
"The neighbourhood of Broadbeach projects a lifestyle of casual, social engagement and invitation; animated streets where life is on display. To ensure this preservation of character, the proposal seeks to engender a place which participates in these traditions and contributes to the evolution of local identity."
They said the dwellings were imagined as a collection of beachside homes.
"The dwellings take form as a series of quarters for living and sleeping, each shaped by a series of directional vistas running across and through the space.
"Celebrating the notions of outdoor living and choice, occupants enjoy the benefits of flexibility and multi-modal living with operable partitions and alternative glazing arrangements to expand rooms into balconies and interstitial spaces.
"Designed from the inside out, the resultant façade exercises simplicity and restraint."
DVB secured approval for their debut Gold Coast apartment development, Sea Glass, late last year, after working with council following its mid-2021 rejection.
Sea Glass, which will have 35 apartments, is located on the corner of First Avenue and Old Burleigh Road, around a kilometre north of the new project, just past Broadbeach Park.