Home of the Arts
DEVELOPER : City of Gold Coast
MAIN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY : Hansen Yuncken
ARCHITECT : ARM
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER : ARUP
CONSTRUCTION VALUE : $60.5 million
The HOTA (Home of the Arts) Art Gallery spans 7-levels and is the largest public gallery outside a capital city with over 2,000m² of international standard exhibition space which includes a main exhibition gallery, a dedicated children’s gallery, exhibition space for temporary exhibitions, and nearly 1,000m² of collection storage.
The HOTA Gallery forms part of the City of Gold Coast’s transformational Cultural Precinct Development and will host Australian and internationally recognised exhibitions. The planning for the construction of the remarkable building commenced in late 2018, based on a concept design from an international competition held in in 2012-13. The HOTA precinct and new Gallery were to be unified visually by the dynamic, organic cellular structure of the Voronoi, nature’s most robust but delicate pattern. The colours for the building follow the palette from the William Robinson painting, ‘The Rainforest’, one of the most valued paintings in the City’s collection.