Completed last month, the new City Beach Surf Club has emerged as a new public focal point and icon, as a result of a human-centric design approach. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate and thank the client, all elected members of the Town of Cambridge, and project leaders, Jason Buckley, CEO and Brett Jackson, Director Projects for working tirelessly with us to deliver an outstanding building for the community, today, tomorrow and long into the future.

The project was commissioned through an intesnive three stage architectural competition. The initial brief for the project required a single two storey building comprising of a surf club at ground level and a first floor commercial space. The CHRISTOU scheme challenged the brief and offered a composition of orchestrated buildings, framing a new public space and capturing views of the expansive Indian Ocean coastline. 

The design was inspired by the rugged coastline, the beach and the icon. The intensification of a coastal outpost, carving out space from the dunes. The project includes; a dedicated surf club at the edge of the ocean, three commercial pavilions and alfresco decking areas, extensive green roof, landscaped plaza and street, and sea wall constructed to a depth of RL -1.0 extending from the groyne in the south to the boardwalk in the north.

The design nestles into the site, working the topography to create a sequence of programmatic datums; transitioning from arrival, hospitality, public space, promenade and beach. At all times the lure of the ocean is present through framed and expansive views of this iconic destination.