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Above left: (Main Beach's) The Inlet Apartments (117m/384f, 35 stories, 1991).
Above middle and right: Imperial Surf Apartments (116m/381f, 40 stories, 1982).
Above left: Surfers Aquarius (114m/374f, 39 stories, 1980),
Gold Coast City's tallest building from 1980-1982.
Above right: Contessa Apartments (114m/374f, 35 stories, 1989).
Like the Inlet Apartments, the building can be found in Main Beach.
Above: Belle Maison (112m/367f, 34 stories, 1992).
Another Broadbeach skyscraper.
Above: Atlantis Apartments East and West (110m/361f, 27 stories, 1982/1984).
The East Apartments building can be seen on pictures #2 and #4; picture one shows them both (East and West, l-r).
Above left: Shores (106m/348f, 31 stories, 2005).
Shores is part of Southport.
Above middle left: Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort (105m/344f, 33 stories, 1992).
The tallest all-hotel tower in Gold Coast City.
Above middle: Carmel by the Sea (105m/344f, 33 stories, 1996).
Another residential tower which can be found in Broadbeach.
Above middle right: Courtyard Surfers Paradise (104m/341f, 36 stories, 1984).
Above right: The Waterford (96m/315f, 32 stories, 1996),
which can be found in Main Beach.
Above left: Focus (96m/315f, 32 stories, 1976).
Tallest building of Gold Coast City from 1976-1977.
Above middle left: Artique (95m/312f, 30 stories, 2005).
Above middle right: Sentinal (90m/295f, 30 stories, 2001).
Above right: Surfers Century (85m/279f, 30 stories, 1979).
Above left: a photograph of a picture of Soul (240m/786f, 72 stories).
This will be Gold Coast City's 2nd tallest skyscraper
when the building will be completed by 2007/2008.
Construction of the tower was about to begin when the pictures were taken (April 2006).
Above middle: the Circle on Cavill complex, currently under construction
with tower B (219m/718f, 70 stories, 2006), and tower A (158m/518f, 50 stories, 2006).
Although not yet completed in April of 2006 (when the pictures were taken),
the buildings are already the 2nd and 3rd tallest buildings of Gold Coast City.
The middle picture shows a model of the finished complex.
Above right: another building currently under construction (in Broadbeach):
the peculiar shaped The Wave (111m/364f, 34 stories, 2006),
seen on a advertising board.
Above left: aerial view over Main Beach and Surfers Paradise from the north.
In the background, Q1, Gold Coast City's and Australia's tallest skyscraper.
Above middle left: aerial view from the southeast over Surfers Paradise and Main Beach,
and in the far distance Southport and Runaway Bay.
Above middle: another aerial view over from the north over Main Beach and Surfers Paradise.
Above right: two views from Q1; a northern one over Surfers Paradise and towards Main Beach.
and a southern one, over part of Surfers Paradise and towards Broadbeach.
Above: view towards some of the residential towers of Main Beach.
Above: 'Queensland, Sunshine State' is what the license plate reads,
with a local bird, the White Australian Ibis passing by.
Click here to go to page 1 of Gold Coast City
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For pictures of Q1, Gold Coast City's and Australia's tallest skyscraper,
go to a special picture page of this tower: Q1
Gold Coast City's 10 tallest skyscrapers:
1. Q1 323m/1,058f, 78 stories, 2005
2. SKYLINE NORTH TOWER 158m/518f, 50 stories, 2004
3. SKYLINE TOWER 146m/479f, 40 stories, 2002
4. THE GRAND MARINER 139m/456f, 43 stories, 1992
5. PENINSULA RESORT 137m/449f, 47 stories, 1982
6. AIR ON BROADBEACH 131m/430f, 37 stories, 2005
7. OUTRIGGER SUN CITY RESORT 130m/427f, 42 stories, 1999
8. SKYLINE CENTER TOWER 127m/417fm, 40 stories, 2004
9. CROWN TOWERS 125m/410f, 41 stories, 1998
10. PIVOTAL POINT 124m/407f, 40 stories, 2004
The building data, the top 10 of tallest buildings, and some of the building information are courtesy of
EMPORIS.COM, one of the world's leading architectural resources on tall buildings.
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