Architect and Builder June 2017 | Page 43

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 43