In 2018 the Gold Coast Arts Centre rebranded and relaunched as HOTA, Home of the Arts, an award-winning $37.5 million precinct rolling over 17 hectares including 3000 square metres of parkland. Inside are theatres, galleries, cinemas, function rooms, a chapel, cafe and two performance spaces. Outside are green spaces and a sculptural amphitheatre, the winner of two Queensland state Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Awards in 2018, shared by CUSP landscape architects and urban designers, ARM Architecture and German landscape architect Topotek 1. The design team won an international competition in 2013, which attracted more than 75 bids. HOTA is a short walk from Surfers Paradise and has the amphitheatre as its centrepiece, with capacity for 5000 people. The stage features a living green roof, with more than 20,000 specially-selected …