The original thread was deleted so ive started again.
the beautiful green glass apartment tower will tranform the Mainbeach skyline. It will sit nicely next to Inlet. Canberra Architects- have designed this 94m/30storey tower. They have recently completed the SENTINEL ON MAIN in 2001.
This project is scheduled to start in 2004.
Ill post render soon as ss.com is back up!

cheers

http://www.imagenode.com/files/transfer/6/2003/09/218480.jpg

ah there it is. thats the one i got emailed from the actual architects, then i put them on ss.com.
Hopefully iy will start up this year! its a beauty!

axis has started about a month or so ago .has a large crane working as well

wow! thanks for informing us. i was wondering about its status.
cheers

This kinda news makes my day! This has to be one of the most beautiful apartment buildings ever conceived.

heres the render of the green AXIS! beautiful design with concrete framing and stepped top with spire reaching 94m/306ft! This is probably only tower uc in Mainbeach after the recent completion of Marquis on main & Newport on Main.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/culwulla/axis.jpg

so far they are a bit past street level in height working fairly fast.

thanx for update. i think its too early for pix. maybe when we get a core going.
cheers

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/citiboy/buildings001.jpg

wow, thanx for update citiboy! looks like the core will start soon. This one will really be a stand out in mainbeach! cant wait!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/citiboy/buildings006.jpg

Thanks for the snap. Do you know who the builder is? In any case this one should go up pretty quick I guess.

ill get back to u mr tall but i think its watpac

Thanks for the snap. Do you know who the builder is? In any case this one should go up pretty quick I guess.
I think you may need glasses buddy,it clearly says WATPAC on the side of the crane. :)

Yeah, my screen resolution sucks so I was thinking that Westpac are getting into the development game.

is nice desgin
but kinda looks alone there
any info on the apartments ?

trances. the 94m height was agreed on so it was a step down height from the 40storey INLET to its east and 20storey MALIBU to its west. it looks all by itself but it isnt ,just well spaced.

When you take close-up shots like that for ANY tower on the GC it'll seem to be isolated. It's a good thing.

anyone been near Mainbeach lately?

im just updating the construction diagrams, any recent pix? its been 9weeks.
ill estimate 9 more levels on top of 4. maybe 13?

im just updating the construction diagrams, any recent pix? its been 9weeks.
ill estimate 9 more levels on top of 4. maybe 13?

Next time maybe, I almost died walking from Air to Chevron today, the ibises would have picked my bones clean before I got to Main Beach.

^lol! No worries Kwigster, we appreciate this awesome batch of pics nonetheless.

think thats hard shouldtry walking out side in dubai
i almost died on my fornightly trips

think thats hard shouldtry walking out side in dubai


You couldn't force me with a gun to my head. I think I'll attend the next transit centre protest with a sign demanding Clarke phase out the sun. I'd still be the most reasonable one there.

Bloody Hell! Air-Chevron. That's about 15Km. Screw that. I'd rather catch a bus to Elkhorn Ave.

23/01/05 - very skinny but coming along well

http://www.ct4host.lunarpages.com/gc/axis00.jpg

http://www.ct4host.lunarpages.com/gc/axis01.jpg

looks like 9 to floors, 13 to box.

thanks for updates. this should be great.

Some pics of this building from today...

From the street:
http://www.cmrdesign.net/towers/axis-streetfront.jpg

A couple looking from the canal side:
http://www.cmrdesign.net/towers/axis-canal.jpg

http://www.cmrdesign.net/towers/axis-canal-close.jpg

A couple of different views of the model in the sales centre:
http://www.cmrdesign.net/towers/axis-model.jpg

http://www.cmrdesign.net/towers/axis-model-side.jpg

Cheers
Charlotte

thanks for piccies, hey the photos of the model look totally different then the render and plans i was sent last year. its totally new top. its not as good. the original had a spired top.this also looks taller? i counted 30 storeys plus top LMR, so maybe 95m?

original tower 94m to spire>
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/culwulla/axis.jpg

That's a pity - another spire bites the dust. The Chevron effect has struck again.

Love your work Firefly :cool:

i like the newer design more :)
its so slim!

offiicial height from architects- 101m to LMR. so its up from 84m roof (spire-94m).
should look tall from its location.

its a skinny gaffa aint it

Cul, what is LMR?

Lift Motor Room. its normally the highest part of the roof. i notice theres a thin blade above this one.

any recent pix? i was updating April diagram.

I will try and get some this afternoon of both this one and Nexus Culwulla. :)

^ thanx!

From the 'grassy knoll' next to the Gold Coast Highway - looking at the tower from the north west:
http://www.cmrdesign.net/towers/axis-010405.jpg

wow, 20 levels in core.! amazing progress.
thanks for pix
cheers

25/04/05

Not a great shot, but it looks to be two levels taller than in Firefly's pic above, so 22 storeys?

http://www.ct4host.lunarpages.com/gc/axis02.jpg

nice, this one is going crazy! so fast

no pix in may ;( anyone been up there lately?

so, 'Vehicles welcome' at a car wash, fancy that. lol

this pic posted by Mr Macfisto from Q1's observaton deck shows Axis uc atop of pic near Grand Mariner.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v108/n4214439/Q107.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/citiboy/AXIS.bmp

nice citiboy. you can tell its creeping up in height along side the massive INLET. Its 117m (106m roof) 35st, . The pic defec took on april25, Axis core reached lev25 or 76m.
so now it must be approx lev30 or 90m high. wont be long til it tops out.

http://www.cmrdesign.net/towers/040605/axis-040605.jpg

great pic. looks like lev24 floor plate and lev28 in corebx,
since its been 3 weeks, i quess its topped out by now?
i was going to update monthly diagrams this week. if anyones out that way please take a quick snap.
cheers

This one is such a skinny design!! Will try to get a pic Cull but the weather has been so crap here lately and its dark by the time most people finish work. Will try and get one this weekend...

no worries. cant help bad weather. when ever you get around to it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/citiboy/ax.jpg

thanx citiboy. looks full height?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/citiboy/coast015.jpg

great shot citiboy. you can see exactly what council wanted in terms of height. They wanted Axis to be halfway between massive 35st Inlet to east and 20st Malibu to west.
cheers

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/citiboy/axis11.jpg

http://www.cmrdesign.net/towers/axis-040905.jpg

http://www.cmrdesign.net/towers/axis-southernside-040905.jpg

Thanks firefly. Green glass is looking pretty good, but I'd like to see the otherside, which when last photographed, looked like it was going to be a black wall, before I give it the thumbs up.


Is that a purple crane!!!!!! lol :)

great ff! looks amost done,

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/citiboy/axis787.jpg

nice shot. i think a blade still has to be put on top to reach full 101m height.

recent pic of Axis.from pivotal point. axis is in between Inlet & Malibu
http://www.realestate.com.au/objects/props/0186/102710186ml1128315297.jpg

latest from indy
http://www.motorsport.com/photos/champcar/2005/sp/champcar-2005-sp-ks-0609.jpg

Is it really finished? Hmm, very dissapointing. The green glass doesn't have much of an impact and the top half looks dull - they should have carried the white through like on the renders - another example of cost cutting? Be good to have some more pics GC people?

I didn't know it had so few apartments:
Axis is a 30 storey high-rise with only 32 apartments. Up to Level 15, there are 12 floors of two storey apartments. Above this, the apartments occupy their own floor up to Level 26.

No, it's not quite finished yet, looked u/c on the Gold Coast Indy coverage. It still needs to be painted and there is a little spire that goes on it as well I think.

^ it was going to be a spire that reached 94m, but there was an amendment to top section and 5 floors were added and a blade replaced the spire which is already up( totals 101m).
heres a capture from indy race
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3494/abovemainbeachaxis4jn.jpg

CULWULLA

If Axis has been completed, time for it to go to the Archive section.

^ yeah, crane is long gone. just some paint to add. ground work ect.