The Home of the Arts (HOTA) Green Bridge is a locally transformative infrastructure project that unlocks direct pedestrian and cycle access between Chevron Island and the Home of the Arts across the Nerang River through to Surfers Paradise. 

The Green Bridge represents the most everyday accessible transformation of the Evandale site. Whereas the Outdoor Stage is a citywide fantastic event destination that may be visited every few months, the bridge offers genuine everyday useability and citywide connectivity for everyone, regardless of their interest in engaging with the arts. 

Unique to the HOTA precinct is ARM’s all-encompassing adoption of nature’s most robust but delicate shape, the Voronoi, as a site organising principle overtly manifesting throughout almost all landscape and architectural elements. The complexity of adopting the Voronoi’s organic cellular structure is a challenge that passed through from ARM Architecture and CUSP as the original bridge concept designers to Archipelago as landscape architects and architects engaged by the Design and Construct (D&C) Contractor, Georgiou Brady Joint Venture.

Beyond the complexity of articulating the Voronoi arrangement throughout all the bridge design components to realise a holistic and master plan faithful vision, our design team led the curation and coordination of the art. This included selecting and briefing the artists, curating and convening the art selection panel, developing the selection criteria and ratifying the selection process and outcomes.

The Archipelago design leaders for this project worked creatively and closely with project artists Warren Langley and Jess Austin to collaboratively develop their winning concept of ‘40 million mornings’ and the surrounding landscape into a cohesive arrival experience that cossets the bridge within the artwork and a sculptural native landscape composition. 

Whilst the Bridge concept was from the outset creative, integrating the all-pervasive Voronoi aesthetic within the overall master plan, it is the deft yet dynamic integration of the artwork through and with the landscape and architectural composition that elevates the project from a functional river crossing at the master plan’s periphery into an iconic urban gateway moment, a fitting tribute to 40 million mornings and fit for 40 million more.