LOCATION: Rottnest Island Lodge, Rottnest Island, Western Australia

PROJECT TYPE/SERVICES: Concept Sketch Visual

CLIENT: Place Development

This evocative aerial view sketch helped Place Development Australia win the project in a shortlist of six respondents.

The proposed revamp will include a wellness day spa, restaurant, hotel, beach lounge and new pool. It will replace the existing Rottnest Island Lodge site, currently trading as Karma Resort and will cost $40 million.

The 94-room hotel is expected to become the new “heart” of the island and will add new buildings while upgrading the existing complex.

Place Development director Robert Bates-Smith said the new low impact, light-touch redevelopment would be a “welcoming and inclusive resort” that paid respects to the island’s Indigenous significance.