Kurrawa Surf Life Saving Club

Kurrawa Surf

Life Saving Club

The Kurrawa Surf Life Saving Club sits at the heart of the Gold Coast community, marrying civic, community and recreational functions in a place where the city meets the beach.

After multiple renovations, the Kurrawa Surf Life Saving Club wished to enhance its reputation as Australia’s premier surf club by building a new facility which would reflect not only its status within the surfing community but capitalise on its site, occupying one of Australia’s premier beaches within the 2018 Commonwealth Games city of
the Gold Coast.

The competition brief was for an iconic, bold and visionary architecture which still maintained references to its functional use as a surf life saving club.

Won from a select architectural competition, the building houses both surf club facilities and a supporters club comprising a 600 seat restaurant, café, bar and gaming lounge. Key to the design was the provision of a generous civic ‘outdoor room’ created under a sculpted sheltering roof.

Kurrawa Gold Coast Open House Video - Filmed & Directed by Nikolas Strugar, Ravens At Odds

The Broadbeach precinct is a key destination for residents and visitors to the Gold Coast and Kurrawa Surf Club will continue to play a key role in providing a quality hospitality venue for its guests as well as continuing our long and rewarding history as a successful Surf Life Saving Club in a state-of-the-art facility.

Stewart Palmer, Kurrawa SLSC Chairman

The design concepts sought to find an identity balancing the building’s dual civic and recreational functions, a place where the city meets the beach.

The generous folded lightweight roof continues our exploration into a subtropical architectural language — in this case one which is also expressive of a casual beach culture.

Client	Kurrawa Surf Life Saving Club
Contractor	Paynter Dixon Queensland
Scale	2910m²
Pax	600 Seats

AIA Gold Coast Regional Commendation - Public Architecture

Anne Sulinski

07 3831 8150

Scott Burrows

Nikolas Strugar, Ravens At Odds

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