Approved skyscraper on Gold Coast set to become Australia's tallest

A proposal to build Australia's tallest building in Southport on the Gold Coast has received approval from the City of Gold Coast.

Named One Park Lane, the project comprises a 101-storey, 197-apartment residential tower that is set to reach nearly 400 metres in height and a neighbouring 60-storey commercial office tower with more than 11,600 square metres of office space.

The initial concept design for One Park Lane was prepared in 2022 by BKK Architects and further developed by Cottee Parker for a development application lodged in June 2025. Landscape architecture practice TCL undertook the landscape design for the project.

The towers rise from an elevated, splayed podium, supported by root-like columns inspired by the Moreton Bay fig tree. A landscaped forecourt beneath the podium canopy will provide public amenity and link the ground-floor entry atriums of both buildings.

The towers will also be linked via a fully glazed skybridge on the twenty-second floor. The bridge is proposed to contain within it a hospitality offering, landscaped areas, seating and 360-degree views of the city. Inside the skybridge and residential amenity levels, sculptural columns echo the organic form of the external root-like columns rising from the ground plane.

Described on the One Park Lane website as "harmonious in colour," the towers are set to be clad in high-performance glazing in a dark shade of grey. Transparent glass wrapping the communal areas of the residential tower and the skybridge punctuates the facade, creating a delineation between public and private spaces.

Construction on the project is anticipated to commence in early 2026.