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2 River Terrace, Tweed Heads is a place and a community which is authentic to its very special and unique site. Its design concepts are sensitively considered and located in a manner where a sense of the environment and landscape and the life it supports is embedded in the experience of the place, a design which is responsive and empathetic to the idea of community. It offers a discreet awareness and visibility of each other, allows privacy or interaction and allows a quiet and respectful culture particular to the existing buildings. Landscaping is integrated both horizontally and vertically. Creepers or climbing plants would be of different flowering varieties to give a richness and diversity to the facade.

Whilst site and budget has influenced the conceptual thinking, it has been reconciled with the high aspirations for the quality of the architecture with those constraints by developing essentially cost effective rectilinear plan forms with conventional structure and finishes, but with major design moves and interventions; deeply recessed and very private outdoor spaces and off-white coloured rendered walls with simple cost effective forms.

The major and signature design gesture is the proposal for the building to read as an iconic landmark building in this precinct. The building forms are carefully integrated with a dense sub-tropical landscape and projects a unique, signature and iconic character that is instantly recognisable. The construction of the building in conventional materials with natural colours and with strong articulation of screens and sunshades has many levels of experience from the powerful and exciting address it provides on approach, to the sense of anticipation in arrival particularly at entry and then subsequently as part of the continuing experience to the interiors.