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  • Gold Coast, Australia
  • Completion: 2011
  • Capacity: 25,000

The new oval-shaped Gold Coast stadium at Carrara, in Queensland, is designed to be a multifunctional flexible community stadium. Home to the new Gold Coast Football Team, the 25,000-seat stadium will be capable of hosting just only AFL, but also Twenty-20 Cricket, international cricket and major outdoor concerts.

The stadium has also been designed to be adaptable to accommodate the requirements of FIFA World Cup Soccer as part of Australia’s World Cup Bids for 2018/2022, as well as Queensland’s bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

The stadium is designed to be the modern "footy in the park," the new community stadium designed to encourage family participation yet provide the latest in technology and video screen entertainment to bring the “living room” to the park. It will have one of Australia’s largest most advanced video boards to provide 8m high replays of the action, and integrated sponsorship placement opportunities.

Corporate facilities, including 2,000 corporate seats, will also encourage the outdoor lifestyle with open corporate barbecue terraces, field clubs and open air suites will provide new fresh approaches to the corporate and sponsor offerings at the stadium. This combined with the best viewing standards for all patrons of any oval based stadium in Australia (if not the world) will further maximize the fan experience.

Bars, food stalls and bathrooms are located in the park, rather than inside the stadium, enabling the open air concourses that look out on the oval as well as the park setting, to take advantage of the sub tropical outdoor lifestyle of the Gold Coast. The bars and food stalls create public food courts in the park, alongside outdoor picnic and BBQ areas.

The design is also uniquely Gold Coast. The undulating wave form of the roof reflects the swell of nearby Broadbeach surf and the undulating backdrop of the hinterland nearby. The roof is carefully designed to provide maximum shade from the afternoon sun, as well as rain protection during summer storms. The undulating form of both the roof and open concourses, encourages natural air movement and cross ventilation of the seating areas and oval in the summer heat.