Spyre Group lodges plans to convert Coolangatta's Komune Resort and Beach Club to apartment tower
The boutique developer Spyre Group has lodged plans to convert the Komune Resort and Beach Club Coolangatta in to a block of 31 apartments.
There’s a potential sale of the 862 sqm site on the table between Spyre Group and the 144-146 Marine Parade owners, a company directed by Komune Resort owner Anthony Cannon and Fitness First founder Tony de Leede.
The near beachfront, located opposite the two level Coolangatta Surf Club, is currently home to a nine storey building. Spyre are seeking to demolish the block and have had bureau^proberts design the new 12-level tower.
Between levels one and nine there will be 18 two bedroom apartments and nine three bedders. Level 10 will home two near 200 sqm sub penthouses and level 11 will have two penthouses, both with three bedrooms and their own private rooftop crowning the block.
There will be 75 bedrooms in total across the 31 apartments. The plans will see the tower have three units per floor, with the two bedroom units located on the south-eastern and south-western sides and the larger three bedroom apartments fronting Marine Parade.
The two bedroom apartments span around 80 sqm of internal living space, with three bedroom apartments spanning over 220 sqm.
The ground level will feature 576 sqm of recreational space, designed by Cusp Landscape Architecture which will include a communal resort area with plunge pools.
The design statement lodged by bureau^proberts says the site at 144 Marine Parade is characterised by beauty and abundance.
"From here views extend north to Greenmount Headland, north-west to Coolangatta Beach and south to Fingal Headland. These surroundings of coastline, hilltop and river are the foundations for the architecture which strives to create a building designed from and for its place.
"144 Marine Parade takes its cues from its coastal setting with apartments designed to optimise view and breeze corridors, while managing privacy from neighbouring sites and shelter from low-angled sun.
"Its form is derived from sweeping coastal forms, created to give the illusion of a windswept exterior rippled by a cool, coastal breeze.
"A defining experience of the architecture occurs at ground level in the terraced, open air spaces of the lobby. In this atmospheric space, reflective pools and stone terraces create sheltered outdoor rooms for casual gathering among subtropical gardens."
The original 14 residential units were converted from permanent accomodation in to short-term letting suites in 2010.
At the end of December an application was lodged for the site, and the adjacent site, seeking to build a 27 storey high rise mixed-use development, made up of a resort hotel with a 5-star, 100 suite resort, 94 residential apartments, a restaurant, shop and cafe.
The application was approved by council and then appealed by the neighbouring body corporate to the west, with the appeal ultimately successful. Now the current development proposal won't exceed the site's mapped building heights and does not include podium levels.
