Arggh, the pain of Sunland building a tallie outside of South East Queensland. And I hear it's a bit taller than Q1 as well.

Oh the inhumanity!

Still, considering how much Sunland love the Gold Coast, it's safe to say however big D1 will be, they will top it will Q2! No doubts there.

From various places around the net:

...D1, Dubai – Adjacent to the Palazzo Versace, Dubai, EIH and SGL will co-develop on a 50:50 basis a landmark freehold residential tower project named D1.

...Other projects include D1 in Dubai, a building modeled after an existing tower, Q1, in Queensland...

EIH and Sunland also have plans for a 600-unit residential tower in Dubai and Sunland is scouring the Middle East for other deals. "It is a very young market and we believe there is a lot of value we can add," Abedian says.

No pictures yet, but still now Emaar need to return the favour and build a Burj Dubai on the Gold Coast!:)

so basically it's just a taller Q1...

lol, dubai get taller eberythings....

i wonder if they wull put reflective glass like the first renders of q1 or the q1 glass on it

Oh dear. Another monster of a building in dubai...The skyline really is going to look like a huge jungle.

ur right centre i think, within 10, mabye 15 yrs, Dubai is gunna look like........hong kong???????, but without da mountains :weird: :weird: :omg: :dunno: :dunno: :dunno:

Hopefully the design of D1 will not be exactly the same (but taller) than Q1.

Up there today the entire floor smelt like garbage. The staff said they have been trying to fix it. Air is sucked up from the basement garbage bin/loading dock up the tower.

lol i walk past the q1 today and there was a line going out to the road today there doing really good buisness

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Oh yeah they can, they own the copyright!;)

There's little doubt D1 will be better than Q1 since it'll be newer and invariably things get more advanced with time. You learn from you're mistakes.

Besides it's Dubai, they only have two type of glass, shiny glass, and 'my eyes! my eyes!' glass, so it'll no doubt be coated in super reflective glass and from what I've heard be about 15 or so floors taller to boot.

In any case, it'll be interesting to see what Q1 should have look like:P

But there is little need for concern since Sunland will always save their best tower for the coast, and however good D1 is, they will have something better lined up for the coast afterwards. In th meantime enjoy Circle and Soul going up!:)

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Not sure, hard enough getting info on D1, but I'd say with the Circles wrapping this year, Sunland's next 'big' project on the coast will be 'Q2'. There is a thread in the GC section to read about Q2 news:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=276903

Hell no i don't want a replica of Q1 thats rediculous its an icon on the Gold Coast its unuiqe and is known around the world as the tallest resi tower on the planet at the moment :)
Please don't take it away from us, a replica especially a taller replica is a total ripoff for us :(

I don't see it as a big deal, Q1 is a icon but it's temporary, the title will go soon, I think the reason they are using it in Dubai (which isn't confirmed though, I mean the writer could have just assumed D1 will look like Q1) but even if it does look like Q1, it won't matter because Sunland will give us a new icon which will be way better than Q1 anyway:) You gotta remember no one loves the Gold Coast more than Soheil and Sahba, they got big plans.

I'ts like there will be Sunland's Palazzo Versace Dubai, I hear there will be others in places like Shanghai etc. But everyone knows the first one was was on the Gold Coast, same with Q1.

Hell no i don't want a replica of Q1 thats rediculous its an icon on the Gold Coast its unuiqe and is known around the world as the tallest resi tower on the planet at the moment :)
Please don't take it away from us, a replica especially a taller replica is a total ripoff for us :( You know dubai! They'll steal every building over 300m under the sun and plant it in their jumeirah resort by the next 10 years. :bash: But other than that dubai looks like a cool place.

^^ Dubai is not stilling anything, the same developer who build the Q1 thinks that Dubai deserve a taller one. So if anyone is to "blame", it will be the Q1's developer himself.

So has Q2 been announced yet? I sure hope i'm getting excited over plop...

Sunland signs deal to create Q1's sister
17May06 Gold Coast Bulletin

GOLD Coast development giant Sunland Group has signed a joint venture agreement with Arabtec, the largest construction group in the United Arab Emirates, to replicate its homegrown high-profile projects in the Middle East.

The company's international division Emirates Sunland Group will work with Arabtec to begin construction on the Palazzo Versace Dubai and D1 an 80-storey residential tower similar to the record-setting Surfers Paradise tower Q1.

Both projects will be built on the Culture Village site on Dubai Creek and are valued at about $400 million.

"The D1 will be the sister building to the Q1, just like Dubai is the sister city to the Gold Coast," said Sunland managing director Sahba Abedian yesterday.

"The concept of an iconic building that has some association with the Gold Coast and that is something of significance to the city is something we have wanted to introduce in Dubai for some time.

"The height of the D1 is not yet finalised and while it won't be identical to the Q1, there will certainly be some similarities in design," he said.

As the largest construction group in the UAE, Arabtec has more than 25,000 employees.

The group is now constructing 30 towers valued at $3 billion, ranging from 34 to 60 storeys, of which 16 are residential apartment buildings.

Arabtec is also a partner in the joint venture that is building Burj Dubai, set to be the world's tallest structure at 750m.

The agreement with Arabtec comes two months after Australia's richest man James Packer splashed out $70 million to buy 13 per cent of Sunland.

Mr Packer's Consolidated Press Holdings is interested in Sunland's offshore projects, particularly its Dubai ventures.

Innovarchi architects on this one.

'Sunland's next, a $400 million big one in Dubai which, briefed to evoke the Sydney Olympic torch, looks at this stage elegantly Aurora-esque, its furled glass layers like "pearlescent veils on the edge of the desert" in Ken McBryde's words.'

Didn't know Soheil was Iranian.

Innovarchi just did the base from memory, the wrap around ribbons, Sunland's inhouse team Atelier SDG did the actual tower.

Sounds good though.

Anyway word from the Dubai folk is D1 is:

92 stories
Azure green.

Fark! I want it for the coast!

What's the story about Q2? Are there rumours a taller tower will be developed in the Gold Coast or something?

Well Soheil and Sabha, the big kahunas at Sunland love the Gold Coast have stated a few times that they are planning a taller building that Q1 on the coast in the near to mid term future, but it's only a rumour at this stage. I imagine it would be taller than Q1 and D1, probably over 100 storeys. Now that D1 is done and Sunland's Gold Coast projects are wrapping up this year I'd guessitimate it'll go on the next big block of land they buy on the coast, or maybe have already brought. There is also a rumour of a major QLD developer (of which Sunland is probably the biggest) planning a 80+ storey mixed use tower in Brisbane, so off chance that could be Sunland as well.

Some more, also read that construction starts early next year, marketing later this year and that the Dubai gov is clearing the site currently for construction.

Palazzo Versace hotels are going global as well, should be good, just last week the Gold Coast one won an award for best hotel in Aus:

Sunland in $400m Dubai deals
The Australian, 17 May 2006

PACKER-BACKED developer Sunland Group has formed a joint venture with the biggest building company in the United Arab Emirates to develop Dubai's Palazzo Versace hotel.

The deal with Arabtec also covers construction of an adjoining 80-storey apartment tower, to be named D1 -- in the tradition of Sunland's Q1 tower on the Gold Coast.

The two Dubai projects would cost a total $400 million to build, Sunland managing director Sahba Abedian told The Australian yesterday, and would have an end value of $1.4 billion.

Sunland's stake was held through Emirates Sunland (Dubai), a 50/50 joint venture with the Royal House of Sharjah, an emirate adjoining Dubai.

Emirates Sunland and Arabtec would each own 50 per cent of the Versace and D1 projects.

Mr Abedian said his company was close to signing a deal with the House of Versace to give Sunland exclusive rights to build hotels under the exclusive Italian brand name around the world.

Two months ago, Sunland convinced Australia's richest man, James Packer, to invest $70 million in the company through his family's Consolidated Press Holdings. Sunland developed the world's first Palazzo Versace at Southport on the Gold Coast in 2000, and the Dubai hotel will be only the second in the world.

Mr Abedian said Sunland planned to "continue to develop lots of Versaces in key global destinations".

Construction on the Dubai project was expected to start next February. Apartments and condominiums in the tower and the hotel would be sold off, but the developers planned to retain ownership of the hotel, as Sunland had with its Gold Coast Palazzo Versace.

Buyers were likely to come from around the Middle East, Britain, and Russia, Mr Abedian said. "Dubai is a regional market, it's not just a local market."

Mr Abedian said the move into Dubai was a big step for Sun

and and was "moving towards the realisation of becoming a global property development company". Mr Abedian said development opportunities in Australia were "slowly diminishing" and Sunland was increasingly looking at other global locations for its expansion.

The Gold Coast-based Sunland told the ASX yesterday that Arabtec was currently building 30 towers valued at $3 billion.

"Arabtec is also a partner in the joint venture that is building the world-renowned Burj Dubai," Sunland general manager Anne Jamieson said.

"Upon completion it will be the world's tallest structure, comprising some 750 metres."

Arabtec was founded in 1975 and is listed on the United Arab Emirates stock exchange.

"The joint venture brings the best of Australian technology along with the critical requirements of working with a local company that provides competitive advantage in a high-demand area," Ms Jamieson said. Sunland, which has a market capitalisation of $600 million, closed 2c up yesterday at $2.39.

Sunland's new oasis
The Gold Coast Bulletin, 18May06

IT'S more sandcastles for Gold Coast development giant Sunland with its Middle Eastern oasis taking shape in the form of a $4 billion master-planned community complete with 20 high-rise towers, three hotels, 10,000 homes and a man-made harbour.

A day after announcing a joint-venture agreement to construct Palazzo Versace Dubai and the D1 the city's sister tower to record-setting Q1 the company's international division, Emirates Sunland Group, yesterday agreed to project manage the development on the foreshore of Umm al Quwain, 60km north of Dubai.

Under the agreement with Al Murjan Real Estate, Emirates Sunland Group has the responsibility to appoint consultants and contractors to develop the project, which will also feature several medium-rise villas and townhouses, a central commercial and retail precinct, two islands and an international golf course.

The Umm al Quwain community is scheduled for completion at the end of 2011. Al Murjan Real Estate is responsible for the reimbursement of all costs associated with project management activities carried out by Sunland.

In addition, a project management fee of 2 per cent of the project value, about $80 million, will be paid to Emirates Sunland Group, which is 50 per cent owned by Sunland.

Emirates Sunland Group may also choose to develop some of the smaller precincts within the community.

"Since the establishment of Sunland's offices in Dubai, the group has been presented with a number of opportunities to provide its development and project management expertise," said Emirates Sunland Group managing director Soheil Abedian.

"We are confident that providing technical and project management services will be a growth segment of Sunland's business in the Middle East."

Sunland Group managing director Sahba Abedian said the project management opportunities available for the group to provide its expertise offshore fulfilled its objective to increase the annuity income stream from a non-development segment of the company.

Al Murjan Real Estate, incorporated in the Emirate of Sharjah, is a joint-venture company associated with Sheikh Tariq Bin Faisal Al Qassimi, a member of the ruling family of Sharjah, and Sheikh Abdullah Bin Rashid Mualla, deputy ruler of Umm al Quwain.

60km northish (ie on land) is Sharjah not dubai :).

I remember when the nimbys were all complaining about Q1 and now they all love it...gee i hate them! but yeah Sunland is my 2nd favourite developer behind Austcorp :wink2:

Here is a snippet about D1 from the Australian, the '1' towers (Q1 and D1) will only be on the Gold Coast and Dubai, which works for me, since both cities share an esprit de corps of sorts and are sister cities after all.

...THE Gold Coast's Sunland Group aspires to build Palazzo Versace hotels across the world. But it has no plans to work its way through the alphabet with its mega-tall tower developments. Sunland announced this week it would build an 80-storey apartment tower in Dubai called D1, following on from Q1, the similar-sized, controversial monolith it completed on the Gold Coast last year. D1 will tower beside Dubai's Palazzo Versace, the only hotel to be built under the exclusive Italian brand name since Sunland completed the first at Southport on the Gold Coast in 2000. "No, not at all," said the suave Sahba Abedian, Sunland's managing director, when Strewth asked if there would be other towers in the "1" theme. D1 would be a "sister tower" to Q1, he said, in recognition of Dubai and the Gold Coast being sister cities. If you were hoping for B1 and B2 towers, you can forget it.

D1 is on it's way:

www.d1tower.com

http://www.d1tower.com/images/d1-header.jpg

The model:

http://i11.tinypic.com/2a7dh6r.jpg

http://i10.tinypic.com/40cvehy.jpg

http://i14.tinypic.com/2emflgz.jpg

http://i10.tinypic.com/33ae5bp.jpg

wow, almost indentical.but blue. wheres the spire?

I love the bit at the bottom.

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^^ They don't stand a chance against numerous other "Eureka" competitors, so why bother. :lol:

love the podium... but where's the stick?

I guess it would be a bit hard to put on a stick that'd be taller than the burj dubai! :)

I love the top the setbacks the curves the silver and the base!!! It looks like Vision+Q1. I like this one better and it looks good with no spire. How tall???

^its approx 275m just like Q1 is without spire. but not confirmed yet.

Very nice looking building

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Q1 on holiday;)

Q1 Fix.

Replace cladding, remove uber large spire, ad height. Perfect.

Judging from the model I'd say Q1 has the superior base, that mesh doesn't integrate well with the tower. It's like pubic hair or something. :D

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i hate to say it but the D1 looks like an improved q1.....

^^^It is. Wish it was taller. It's Dubai remember.

sunland should be shot for using the same design twice.

Judging from the model I'd say Q1 has the superior base, that mesh doesn't integrate well with the tower. It's like pubic hair or something. :D

i think the base works good for dubai and q1's base works good for GC :)

Q1 is build in a urban enviroment, while D1 will be build in a waterfront. Obviously the bases of the two buildings serve different pourposes and have to be different.

^^ true, but the D1 looks kinda gay

sunland should be shot for using the same design twice.


Yeah I think it's a bit stupid.

^^ true, but the D1 looks kinda gay

what a thoughtful, inspired contribution.

a nice gold spire bring it into 300m+ club
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/9856/d1spiredb0.jpg

Pfft what a discrace to the GC its our tallest building and its a symbol, an icon, so unique and use it again somewhere else *sigh*
Can't they work their brains and think of something differen't.

Even though my hometown is the Gold Coast i hate to say it but, we got the rough copy, that looks much better blue with no spire :bash:
Well i guess we can always look at it like this, Q1 so great Dubai needed a copy lol, meh i guess QLD will get a taller scraper someday to take the title anywhay, then maybee it can remain unique...

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/434/d1ae6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

350 meters TALL :banana::banana::banana:

http://www.d1tower.com/residential-apartments-dubai/building.htm

Pfft what a discrace to the GC its our tallest building and its a symbol, an icon, so unique and use it again somewhere else *sigh*
Can't they work their brains and think of something differen't.

...

Well i guess we can always look at it like this, Q1 so great Dubai needed a copy lol, meh i guess QLD will get a taller scraper someday to take the title anywhay, then maybee it can remain unique...

LOL, Dubai didn't do anything, SUNLAND came "begging" to build a copy. :D

LOL, Dubai didn't do anything, SUNLAND came "begging" to build a copy. :D


Yeah i didn't mean dubai took anything, it was sunlands fault to build a taller copy outside oz.
I hope another company like raptis or something build something much taller so sunland can shove it, we wan't our country's tallest to be unique (well Eureka is haha i guess its taller) :lol:

350m to roof AND a beautiful facade, not mention a nicer location right on the water! How annoying is that! Sunland better build something BIG on the coast to make up for this!

Well done Dubai though.

http://i14.tinypic.com/2rf7879.jpg

I don't get how this is so much taller, and with no spire aswell, it still has only 80 floors. :weird:

^^ Dubai's typical floor to ceiling heights should be higher, plus I think 80 is just the number of the residential floors so the total floor count should be higher (including G and mechanical/service floors). Also don't forget that the roof feature goes up high above.

350m? i counted the model floors and it works out to be 80 with 5 more or so in fin, thus as high as 85 floors. In australia, 3m is more then enough for residential floors, thus 85x3m= 255m.so must be 85x 4m= 340m. why are floor to floor resi heights in Dubai so much higher then most other countries.?

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not really. your talking about Australia. noit Dubai. they have no controls in Dubai. Australian cities seem to be very restricted to highrise developments. especially the height.

Cul it says 350m on the D1 and Emirates Sunland site

www.d1tower.com.au

www.emiratessunland.com

And this is a pretty clear sign that Q2 if it ever comes will be over 350m tall, which on the GC is doable with the right lot and if you get approvals in place.

^ oh i believe you, im just upset its 350m and Q1 is 275m. why cant we adopt higher floors.

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What is worse than the height is the probable final cladding which will be a superiour blue reflective glass. What a rude awakening for Q1.

maybe higher floors to allow for bigger a/c ductwork inside suspended ceilings Cull?????????

^ oh i believe you, im just upset its 350m and Q1 is 275m. why cant we adopt higher floors.

Sunland said since the begining that D1 will be taller then Q1. I'm surprised that you'd be surprised of that.

Sunland are traitors!!!!

:bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:

im always being suprised.especially for projects in Dubai not in Australia.

Now there's nothing special about Q1 anymore. The same developer made a prototype in Gold Coast and built the good one in Dubai!

^oh i disagree. Q1 was or still is a unique skyscraper. no other like it. it will be no doubt copied over next few years.I dont think any of them will have a better base and finer landscaped city block!!
Also it has a unique 10storey "skygarden" which i dont think D1 will have?
It now has its place cemented in history books at worlds tallest apartment tower from 2005-2009.Also its tallest builduing in southern hemisphere (to spire).
Its iconic design is now an integral part of the Gold Coast!

pic taken 3 days ago

http://static.flickr.com/135/320884711_164daa26b6_b.jpg

But still, D1 will have reflective glass taller structure, better quality internally and so on...

^yes, your probably right. but it will never have a presence that Q1 has.
Q1 doubled the height of its nearest rival upon completion.while D1 sadly may not even be noticed at 350m tall. there will be 20-30 just as high and 1 double its height.
funny shit

It's funny D1 is 350m tall to roof but will never be world's tallest res. If it did have a spire of the same ratio as Q1, however, it would be. As it is it is almost the size of the Empire State Building.

Sigh, come back Sunland! Come back!

I love the design of Q1 and I find it a bit funny that Sunland would use a similar design. Are their architects in house or do they contract them?

I would not have used the same.

The base looks like exploded Crispix :-) It doesn't match the tower and I hope they redesign it like the did with teh base of Q1.

I don't mind the base, considering it was designed by the people who redesigned the base of Q1, I don't think it will be redesigned;)

^yes, your probably right. but it will never have a presence that Q1 has.
Q1 doubled the height of its nearest rival upon completion.while D1 sadly may not even be noticed at 350m tall. there will be 20-30 just as high and 1 double its height.
funny shit

I wouldn't say that, why? Because this a standalone tower and directly faces the water. If it was in the new area being developed around burj dubai then it'd be lost among the multitude of supertalls but not here. It's a pity that the 4 seasons hotel was cancelled since it's just across the way from this one and would have been amazing to have 2 such towers making a gateway

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^^ One day you'll get over it (the jeulosy that is) and will lough at that coment.

^thats because D1 will be built 2007-2010. Q1 was built 2003-2005. You can say it paved way for supertall resis! first to top 300m+.

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you could say im a little jealous of D1. not because its height but due to being about the hundreth 300m+ skyscraper planned for Dubai!!!! !lol
It has taken Australia 45 years since the 45m/150ft height limit was lifted to build 2x 300m skyscrapers- being Q1 and Eureka.
who kows when we will see another? could be 10 years.

i love Dubai. i love all the new skyscrapers! i love everything that is happening to the UAE. brilliant. a skyscrapers dream come true!!

Dubai had a height limit of 30floors in 1989 and 17 years later we have a building with 246 floors under development

246?

^^ I think he meant 216, as per the latest BD speculation.

As for the D1, the building will be the tallest in the aerea, with only the 4 Seasons Hotel to come on the opposite side of the water canal, to be a skyspraper so it will not get "lost" in a sea of other scyscrapers.

well i for one think all this "speculation" about more height on burj dubai is getting silly. it will be 162fl/808m.
as for D1, thats good that it will stand out,. it dserves to be a landmark.

^^ Actually it is strange that they are allowing DI to be build there, becouse that aerea will be build up with traditional yeallow sand colour architecture and the ultramodern blue glass facade of D1 will stand out not only in height but contrast also.

However they gave the development licence to Sunland before they anounced the Culture Village masterplaned megaproject and I think an exeption was made not to have Palazzo Versace sudenly go to some nearby competing market (I'm sure Abu Dhabi would have been more then happy to have it). The thing on the base of the tower will be made out of wood and is part of "blending" with the surrounding, traditional enviroment.

^^ I think he meant 216, as per the latest BD speculation.

As for the D1, the building will be the tallest in the aerea, with only the 4 Seasons Hotel to come on the opposite side of the water canal, to be a skyspraper so it will not get "lost" in a sea of other scyscrapers.

No I Mean I have seen a 246F tower but can say any more due to a NDA its currently undersignd isint a pie in sky building , but a real project

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Al Burj maybe?

There are also rumours the dancing towers have been dumped for a WTB, although that would suck bigtime and destroy the skyline there.

tower is in wind tunnel and pressure testing at the moment. it should be anounced this year. Im not involved in it but have seen the working models and sections so thst all I really know about it

246F, most exciting sounding!

Well I think they need to do that because the Burj Dubai won't keep it's title for that long I think. Too many ppl talking 1000m towers to be safe with the WTB at that height.

Just like there have been copies of empire state and chrysler because they have stunning designs there will be copies of Q1 because it has a stunning design

The website now says both 284m and 350m for the height of the building. Maybe 284 is the roof height, and the glassy feature on top reaches up to 350.

Q1 renders did it turn out like this??
same company builds D1 anything could happen
http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/640/0imageid11970500ae0.png
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2648/002q100ko1.gif
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/9405/10496314zs.jpg

Don't worry Q1 i still love you
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1299/0835aw10ne.jpg
http://img447.imageshack.us/img447/9122/q1canalcut18bm.jpg
http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/4417/q1completedbeach23110513xk.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2926/surferswalk0584ok.jpg

Q1
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1299/0835aw10ne.jpg
D1
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4677/2rf7879wa7.jpg

omg thats such a copy of Australias Q1 :( dam you D1

Innovarchi just did the base from memory, the wrap around ribbons, Sunland's inhouse team Atelier SDG did the actual tower.

Sounds good though.

Anyway word from the Dubai folk is D1 is:

92 stories
Azure green.

Fark! I want it for the coast!
yes innovarchi designed and documented from ground up to Level 3 down. Ribbons, Lobby Retail areas and paving etc. The tower was already up to about level 10 when Sunland invited us to do the re-design (up to L3) so it was a pretty fast track exercise, highly collaborative with the Sunland team.

Apparently..

Unfortunately this project just stopped, the contractor laid of most of its staff last week. Shame, seems like the finance dried up, until they get the finance resolved then its on hold.

I understand many of the sub-contractors havent been paid for months :ohno:

^^

Doesn't seem so:

Hi - It does not seem the work has stopped on the D1. I saw a crane operating an hour ago at the site.

thank god. cheers for that.