Palazzo Versace and Couran Cove

Contrasting Resort Gardens of the Gold Coast

Authors

  • Kate Green Gold Coast TAFE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/S132181660000341X

Keywords:

Gold Coast, Palazzo Versace, Couran Cove Island Resort, resort gardens

Abstract

There are 450 accommodation facilities on the Gold Coast, including hotels, caravan parks, apartments, villas and resorts. This paper will focus on two distinctly different resorts – each has a distinct image and consequently the difference in the garden styles is vast. Palazzo Versace at Main Beach, on the northern end of the Gold Coast mainland tourist strip is the epitome of style. Palazzo Versace has been described as ‘a place of Renaissance splendour, elegance and ease – in a breathtaking location’. By contrast the eco-tourism resort of Couran Cove Island Resort, stretching from the ocean front to the Broadwater, is a gentle and relaxing kind of place, a haven from the energetic and glamorous, busy Gold Coast.

Author Biography

  • Kate Green, Gold Coast TAFE

    Kate Green has been involved in the field of horticulture for almost 30 years, in nurseries, landscape construction and garden design. She has been lecturing at the Gold Coast TAFE since 1996 and was the founder of the Friends of The Gold Coast Botanic Garden which successfully lobbied the council and the community for the need for botanic gardens on the Gold Coast. This has been achieved and she is now coordinating the foundation plantings at Rosser Park.

References

www.versace.com.au downloaded 24 July 2003.

Anderson, Diana, The Grand Hotel, A Case Study, (Gold Coast Institute of TAFE, Horticulture Department, 2001).

Richards, Arthur. ‘Mother doesn't cook in the heart of the golden mile’. The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, 4 Oct. 1954.

‘Versace Development Dresses up the Gold Coast’, Design Trends, (Sydney: Trends Books 2001): 63.

www.versace.com.au op. cit.

Published

2003-11-01

How to Cite

Green, K. (2003). Palazzo Versace and Couran Cove: Contrasting Resort Gardens of the Gold Coast. Queensland Review, 10(2), 141-148. https://doi.org/10.1017/S132181660000341X