but bold navigational system to get you from
your vehicle to the retail and vice versa.
Externally, large free-standing ‘Menlyn’
letters were applied to the façades as identifying
elements. On the north-east corner a 45m high
helix-form structural steel signage pylon was
erected as a distinctive, way-finding element
identifying Menlyn during the day, but more
specifically, at night when it is illuminated.
Menlyn Shopping Centre
Landscaping
The new landscape to the Menlyn Mall Complex
offers the shopper a unique experience of relaxa-
tion spaces on a central park podium with alfresco
restaurants spilling out onto a piazza area. Large
Plane trees create shade to the fringes of the park
with random clumps of extra-large multi-stem
Pride of India trees. The purple and pink hues of
these trees and the cascading mauve Bougainvillea
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