A WHOPPING four levels of apartment luxury could be yours for a cool $9 million after the Gold Coast’s biggest penthouse hit the market.
Spanning the top four levels of Axis tower in Main Beach, the 1085sqm sky mansion takes in full-circle city, ocean and hinterland views and even boasts its own steam room.
It has been the Gold Coast home for Willemsen Development Corporation chairman and architectural director Gary Willemsen and his wife Diana since the $55 million, 32-apartment tower he developed was completed in 2005.
The penthouse features sky gardens, a roof-top pool, an internal lift, stand-alone accommodation, palatial bedroom suites, three kitchens, a dumb waiter, a library, and a gymnasium.
Willemsen founded the company in 1965 with his father John and made a reputation in commercial and residential property in Canberra.
The company made its foray into the Gold Coast with Budds Beach high-end development Sentinel on Main River. Willemsen called that penthouse home for four years before selling it for $4 million in 2006.
Axis followed after the Willemsen Group paid Ukrainian investor Valerios Tomal $2.915 million for the 2024sqm Breaker St site in 2001, and Patrick and Betty Silke $1.5 million for an adjoining 506sqm site in Hill Parade.
The layout comprises six bedrooms, six bathrooms, three kitchens, a library, two studies, a steam room, a gymnasium, an entire floor of stand-alone accommodation and captivating views at every turn.
So what exactly does this extravagant multi-million dollar pad offer? First you get a private lift that services all four floors and opens to a private foyer on the 28th floor.
There’s blackbutt floorboards, expansive spaces, soaring ceilings and walls of glass. The kitchen has a mix of stainless steel and Caesarstone surfaces and a dumbwaiter and an undercover alfresco space captures views across McIntosh Island and the Broadwater – taking in the coastline from Coolangatta.
There’s a concealed temperature-controlled wine room, an open library-style home office with a floor-to-ceiling bookcase, an integrated wetbar and stairs that rise to the 29th floor where an open gallery forms a viewing platform to the loungeroom below.
The main bedrooms alone takes up the entire northern wing and comprises a sitting area, private balcony with frameless glass balustrading fronting the ocean, his and hers dressing rooms and an ensuite with a freestanding bath with Broadwater views.
The crowning level is a private leisure precinct with a covered roof-top pool, a steam room, a bathroom, a gymnasium, a retreat room, a kitchenette and a north-facing balcony with a barbecue area and a water feature within a Zen garden.
The corporation has also developed the Merion Residences at The Glades Golf Course, Robina.
The Axis penthouse, at 26 Breaker St, is marketed by Faye Tyson and Alex Caraco of Coldwell Banker GC Property Group, Main Beach.
Original article published at www.news.com.au by Shae Johnson, Gold Coast Bulletin 20/7/2013