The Big Pineapple
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Big Pineapple, 2005
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| Location | Nambour Connection Road, Woombye, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 26°40′15″S 152°59′33″E / 26.6708°S 152.9926°ECoordinates: 26°40′15″S 152°59′33″E / 26.6708°S 152.9926°E |
| Design period | 1970s - 1990s (late 20th century) |
| Architect | Peddle Thorp and Harvey, Paul Luff, Gary Smallcombe and Associates |
| Official name: The Big Pineapple (former Sunshine Plantation) | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 6 March 2009 |
| Reference no. | 602694 |
| Significant period | 1970s |
| Significant components | restaurant, retail outlet |
 Location of Big Pineapple in Queensland
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The Big Pineapple is a heritage-listed tourist attraction at Nambour Connection Road, Woombye, Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Peddle Thorp and Harvey, Paul Luff, and Gary Smallcombe and Associates. It is also known as Sunshine Plantation. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 March 2009.
The 2-level Big Pineapple is 16 metres high and was originally opened on 15 August 1971. It is situated on a 165 hectare site.
Under new ownership the owners are facilitating new attractions such as the award-winning Big Pineapple Music Festival and the Big Pineapple was also selected to host Midnight Oil within their reunion concert series in 2017. The owners are also embarking on a master planning process through community consultation to further rejuvenate the Big Pineapple experience, with a range of new attractions and services proposed.
The former Sunshine Plantation tourist attraction, now known as The Big Pineapple, is located on the north side of the Nambour Connection Road (former Bruce Highway), just to the west of the current Bruce Highway. It holds a fond place in the memories of many domestic and overseas tourists who drove or were driven north of Brisbane on holiday road trips after 1971. Apart from the iconic value of the Big Pineapple structure itself, as a roadside attraction of the Big Thing variety, the entire 40 hectare complex, with its retail and restaurant spaces, train ride and Nutmobile, crops, rainforest, Macadamia Nut Factory, Big Macadamia, Tomorrow's Harvest greenhouse, Farm Show, Wildlife Gardens, and Animal Nursery, represents an early attempt at agri-tourism in Queensland.
Big Things are large advertising objects, usually in the form of the item they are advertising, and are loosely defined as being at least twice the size of the object they represent and at least twice human size. Big Things have been called outdoor cultural objects which serve to construct and assert the identity of a town or area, and they have also been described as one of Australia's most distinctive home-grown forms of folk art. (The term "outdoor cultural object" was coined in the 2004 publication "Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape" by Lisanne Gibson and Joanna Besley.) The Big Pineapple appears to be the most widely recognised Big Thing in Queensland.
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