Every High-Rise on the Gold Coast
The 40-kilometre-long strip city of Queensland’s Gold Coast runs from Runaway Bay in the north to Coolangatta on the southern border. It is an entirely modern city upon whose architecture rests a critical judgement about contemporary aesthetics. 2012 was chosen as a marking point because all construction stopped due to impact of the financial crisis, providing a rare benchmark of a completed city. There is an historic value in having a documentation complete with name and address, but there is also the slightly absurd connotation of such a banal collection being anything more than a wry comment on the urban topographics of the 70’s, especially the work of Ed Ruscha.
