{"id":775598,"date":"2026-07-03T02:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775598\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:53:10","slug":"koichi-takada-designed-residential-tower-proposed-for-fortitude-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775598\/","title":{"rendered":"Koichi Takada-designed residential tower proposed for Fortitude Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal for a 34-storey residential tower in Brisbane\u2019s Fortitude Valley, designed by Koichi Takada Architects and featuring layered facade planting, has been lodged with Brisbane City Council. <\/p>\n<p>If approved, the tower would replace an existing two-storey commercial office building at 57 Berwick Street. The building adopts a podium-and-tower configuration, with the podium set to the street boundary and upper levels progressively set back to reduce bulk. <\/p>\n<p>The scheme includes 189 apartments, commercial office space at level six and two levels of rooftop amenities, with facilities including a yoga studio, workspace and library, cinema, games lounge, outdoor dining areas, gym, saunas, a pool and a meditation space. The podium accommodates four levels of car parking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deep planters at roof level are incorporated to support larger plant species.\" class=\"['full'] full blur-up lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3d39926d3dc78f80bfc496e91c144e3b.png\" height=\"506\" width=\"728\"\/><\/p>\n<p>View gallery<\/p>\n<p>Plans state the design draws on Queensland\u2019s subtropical landscape. A landscape concept report prepared by Lat Studios outlines an \u201cintegrated green infrastructure\u201d planting strategy, with greenery extending across the facade from ground level to level six. Deep planters at roof level are also incorporated to support larger plant species. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposal for a 34-storey residential tower in Brisbane\u2019s Fortitude Valley, designed by Koichi Takada Architects and featuring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-775598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}