Ridong Gold Coast Developments, the comapny behind Pacific Beach – a $1bn luxury high rise development to be built on the Surfers Paradise beachfront – has brought in three overseas architects to assist with the building’s design.

The firms, Oppenheim Architecture and Design, Marks Barfield Architects and Llewelyn Davies Yeang from the US, UK & Malaysia respectively, are refining the DBI Design concept plans for the project.  Construction itself remains some way off however, with the developer in the process of refurbishing several of the buildings on the site with a view to renting them out in the short term, while plans are prepared and lodged with Council.

Since being frozen – along with the other assets in City Pacific’s First Mortgage Fund over two years ago, new fund manager, Balmain Trilogy have sold the 11,000sqm beachfront Pacific Beach site to a Chinese-back developer for $81.8m.

The developer, Ridong (Gold Coast) Development, has now settled on the purchase and are reported to already be working on plans for a twin tower development for the Surfers Paradise allotment.