Alternative NameAlkira ApartmentsDescriptionAlkira Apartments were designed by Noosa architect Gabriel Poole and built in 1997. It is a two-storey reinforced concrete building, consisting of two x three-bedroom apartments and a penthouse. The building is an example of unit architecture that blends sensitively into the sloping block on which the complex is built. Innovative features of the design include a system of electronically operated louvres on frames for the inaccessible, high windows in the master bedrooms, metal sunshades along the northern windows and louvred ventilation panels in the bedroom corners (that avoid the use of air-conditioning). Though constructed of heavyweight materials, it features aspects of Poole’s renowned lightweight houses including a curved exterior stairwell to the penthouse housed in a semi-circular corrugated cladding.
Poole is an internationally respected architect and a winner of the Queensland Robin Dods Award in 1991, the National Robin Boyd Award in 1991 and the National Gold Medal award for his lifetime contribution to Australian architecture in 1998. Address 31, Noosa Drive, Noosa Heads, 4567, Australia
