Gold Coast

The Gold Coast – On The Wings of Buildings That Fly

Trees are Nature’s architecture of high buildings that fly. In Gold Coast, with the skyscrapers standing around and about in their majesty like coastal redwood, mountain ash, giant sequoia, noble fir, all,  some of the tallest trees in the world with different heights in the forest, the question of what inspires the buildings cannot leave out the architectures of the tallest trees as part of its answer.

Also to the question of what can limit the height of a skyscraper, Nature’s own engineering in the design of trees has the answer too. A tree cannot grow beyond the supply of water from the ground below. So, it is life below, that is, the ecology of human communities and the attendant health demands that can limit the sky-rocketing of the buildings that fly. They are built to solve the problem of urban congestion. They must stop too for the sake of urban safety.

These posh buildings on flight in the sky in Gold Coast give the feeling of entering a plush forest of tall trees that radiates inner peace and physical comfort. Like being in the midst of tall trees, you feel dwarfed by the skyscrapers of Gold Coast. There is a consolation to this, however, as it is in every estate of a human being on earth. You are closer to water than the tall tree and closer to the earth than the skyscraper. The balance is kept by one helping the other.

The skyscrapers help the imagination to fly skyward even as the surfers show that here on the ground, you can be short and be lofty too! This balance of high and low in which the human imagination provides the flow of one in other is what you get on your first encounter with the mix of natural and human-made attractions of the Gold Coast.

So you want to sit down in your office or relax at home and enjoy the comfort of flight? That’s a rare kind of flying. And that’s exactly what the skyscrapers of Gold Coast promise you. They are magnificient, yes simply elegant, dainty,  the product of the stretch of architectural imagination to its limit, the skyscrapers of the Gold Coast.

The tallest of them is Q1, a name for which human creativity can beat its chest. It looks like IQ turned upside down; smashed. Which is good, you would say. QI, no I mean Q1, yes Q1 is a beautiful code with disappointing simplicity. Disappointing because you never can get even a feel for what it hides until you find yourself in Queensland. Yes, got it! It means Queensland Number 1. It’s the name of the tallest building in Australia and the world’s tallest residential tower. It is located in the Surfers Paradise!

If you have seen the skyscrapers and have had a taste of the surfers paradise but have not had a taste of sandy beaches, night clubs, theaters, shopping arcades , casinos, cafés and have not been to Broadbeach, Coolangatta and  Stradbroke Island that promise you the quietude of the recluse away from the ever-rolling hub of activities in central Gold Coast, then you have seen only one side of the coin of attractions and experienced only a part of the open arms welcome of Gold Coast. You need to immerse in it all to get a feel of this bubbling city that is going to remain part of  you for a long time.