Burleigh Beach Designs - Architects

Burleigh Beach Designs - Architects Coastal inspired designs for when architecture and interior design matters. Residential design, interior design & landscaping design

31/07/2026

Most people who come to us have never built or renovated before. They are about to commit a significant sum to something that exists only as drawings, and the process itself is unfamiliar - approvals, tenders, builder selection, and decisions needed faster than expected.

So the work isn't only design. It starts with listening properly, because most people can't name what they want in architectural terms and the first job is working out what they actually mean. It carries on with telling you where things are up to before you have to ask, which is the part that takes the daunting edge off a process you haven't done before.

And when you come back partway through with an idea of your own, we would rather find a way to make it work than explain why it can't.

30/07/2026

Sanctuary Cove - studio project.

This design uses a pavilion layout to break up the building mass, allowing for distinct living zones and a sense of openness throughout. By framing the plan around the pool and alfresco area, the layout maximises the connection to the outdoors and the wide views across the fairway.
We utilised a palette of natural stone and timber to provide a sense of permanence while creating a more intimate mood in the private wings.
See more here -
https://burleighbeachdesigns.com.au/projects/sanctuary-cove-house-concept-design

23/07/2026

Our latest Insight is about designing past what's currently popular.

We start with the site and how the house actually needs to work - orientation, climate, where the breeze comes from, where the light lands. Those are conditions of the place, and they'll still be true long after the current fashion for fixtures and material finishes has moved on.

It also covers the question we think is often skipped: how a material will look and perform after ten years of sun, salt and rain, rather than how it photographs on handover day.

12/06/2026

Gold Coast home are mostly designed to beat the summer. The harder question is what it does in July.

For a few weeks each year the mornings turn sharp and the southerly carries an edge - and a home built only to stay cool can find it has nowhere to hold warmth. The homes that feel right all year aren't the ones that win against summer. They're the ones designed for both ends of the calendar at once.

A well-cut eave does two opposite jobs without a moving part: it holds the high summer sun off the glass, then lets the low winter sun slip underneath and run deep across the floor. Let that sun land on a concrete slab and the floor quietly stores it, giving the warmth back after the sun has gone.

Our latest Insight, The Winter House, is about designing for the season nobody photographs.

Read it → https://burleighbeachdesigns.com.au/insights/the-winter-house

06/06/2026

The Broadbeach Waters House is a coastal design concept in which the material choices, rather than the form, lead. Its defining feature is an extensive use of vertical timber cladding, which gives the exterior a consistent, textured character and helps the building sit within the surrounding tropical planting.

Relying on a single dominant material gives the house a warmth without resorting to a busy mix of finishes. The wider palette is held to a few raw materials - timber, stone and glass - chosen for their durability and suited to the coastal conditions of the Gold Coast.

Read more here - https://burleighbeachdesigns.com.au/projects/broadbeach-waters-house

29/05/2026

The best wall in the house is the one that isn't there.

We keep coming back to the edge — the line where the floor runs out, the doors fold away, and the room quietly becomes the garden.

It's never just a wall of glass. It's the floor that doesn't change at the door. The eave deep enough to do the work of a wall. The greenery pulled into the middle of the plan, not left at the fence.

Get that edge right and the house stops being a box you look out of. It starts to belong to where it sits.

12/05/2026

Chevron Island Pavilion.

A canal-front site changes the rules. Your neighbours aren't beside you - they're across the water. So the house can do what it wants with the back.

Off-form concrete and vertical timber hold the street. Then the ground floor opens completely to the canal. Stone bench long enough for prep and conversation at the same time. Soft textures upstairs. A bathroom you'd want to spend time in.

A house designed around where the views actually are.

Full project → burleighbeachdesigns.com.au/projects/chevron-island-pavilion

Every few years, the coast adopts a new accent. A shape becomes shorthand for sophistication, a silhouette appears on ev...
03/05/2026

Every few years, the coast adopts a new accent. A shape becomes shorthand for sophistication, a silhouette appears on every second render, and the streetscape begins to rhyme — one house echoing the next.
The houses that age well rarely speak that language at all.
Our latest Insight on designing beyond the trend cycle — site, climate, material, and the discipline of restraint.

Read the article: https://burleighbeachdesigns.com.au/insights/the-anti-trend-designing-for-timelessness

24/04/2026

Noosa House.

A sub-tropical site thick with palms, and light that shifts through the canopy all day. We wanted the house to sit inside that — not on top of it.

Hand-laid sandstone at the base. Vertical timber battens through the ceilings and walls. Off-form concrete holding it all together. Materials that will mottle, silver, and soften as they go.

The entry narrows between planting and a water feature — a slow approach that puts the street out of mind before you reach the pivot door.

The master suite opens straight out to the pool. Upstairs you're level with the palms.

In five years, the garden will have closed in, the stone will have warmed, and the line between house and site will be harder to find.

Full project here - https://burleighbeachdesigns.com.au/projects/noosa-house

15/04/2026

The Living Threshold.

A wall of glass doesn't mean you're connected to the outdoors. It often means the opposite — glare, heat, and a hard line between inside and out.

Real indoor-outdoor living happens at the threshold. The floor that runs unbroken from your living room to the deck. The deep eave that lets you sit with the doors wide open during a storm. The internal courtyard that brings landscape into the centre of the plan.

It's the space between inside and outside that makes a coastal home feel like it belongs to its site — not just sitting on it.

Our latest Insight explores how we design this transition. Worth a read if you're thinking about how your home meets the landscape.

Read the full article: burleighbeachdesigns.com.au/insights/the-living-threshold-dissolving-the-line-between-in-and-out

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