B.E. Architecture builds Mermaid Beach Residence with a sense of "permanence"

Heavy concrete walls anchor this family home in Queensland, Australia, to its beachside setting, while hiding it from a busy road nearby.
Mermaid Beach Residence is situated in Queensland's Gold Coast region and has been designed to reflect "a desire to stay and age".Its owners – a couple with two young children – had, for the past decade, lived further along the same stretch of beach in a timber-framed house that B.E. Architecture compared to the quaint properties found in American