Like many Upper North Shore suburbs along the Pacific Highway, Gordon has lacked a village focus. Our concept design aimed to create a centre where residents, shoppers, and workers could pause, rather than simply pass through a busy retail strip. A new welcoming, sun-filled plaza acts as a natural funnel into a food and beverage quarter and retail hub.

The proposal features an 8,400 m² retail precinct with a 4,000 m² Woolworths, 1,500 m² liquor store, speciality shops, restaurants, and food courts—topped by up to 550 mixed-tenure residential apartments in high-rise form.

This major concept design drew on Become’s full suite of expertise in design and architecture, working with a specialist urban planner to explore the site’s highest and best use.