Elevating Retail Spaces with Smart Landscape Architecture
Karalee Town Centre
Karalee | Brisbane | Queensland | Australia
project team
Developer | Consolidated Properties
CVS Lane Capital Partners
Builder | Hutchinson Builders
Architect | V Architecture
transforming Karalee town centre
Karalee Town Centre, located in Brisbane’s fast-growing western suburbs, expanded with an impressive 5,600 square metres of new retail space. This addition features a Coles Supermarket, 15 specialty stores, a modern medical centre, a vibrant dining precinct, and upgraded parking facilities.
Citicene delivered Landscape Architectural services from Development Approval through to construction. While shopping centre landscapes are often overlooked, our strategic design approach ensured a seamless integration with the surrounding environment – enhancing aesthetics, functionality, and the overall customer experience.
standard design principles
overland flow, screening and buffering, provision of shade
Standard design principles that are typically applied to shopping centre developments include:
- consideration of stormwater overland flow through landscape filtration devices
- screening and buffering of built form
- provision of shade for pedestrians and users
- smart selection of frost and drought tolerant plant species indigenous to the area
- positioning of trees and shrubs to maintain safe sight-lines and prevent crime.
Close coordination within the consultant team to ensure an integrated and cohesive design outcome while satisfying Council local regulations and conditions are priorities to deliver this project in accordance with the Client’s budget and requirements.
cohesive design approach
integration
This project included integration with a number of streetscapes and street frontages – part of the local Ipswich City Council’s infrastructure. Meeting the local urban guidelines required by the local authority included the following.
Fulfil the Ipswich City Council’s Vision
Ipswich City Council’s Vision is to provide the community with attractive public spaces. This includes the provision of quality streets and streetscapes.
Planning Scheme Policy 3 – General Works
Deliver streetscapes in accordance with the Ipswich City Council Planning Scheme. This includes ensuring the streetscapes are built to required standards and certified as constructed to the standards. All parks and streetscapes are to be constructed in accordance with the specifications contained in the Ipswich Streetscape Design Guideline.
Certification
All landscape work is to be supervised by a Landscape Architect competent in this field of expertise. Certification of the completed works is to be in accordance with Australian Industry Standards and Council Standards.
Streetscape On Maintenance and Off Maintenance
‘On Maintenance’ and ‘Off Maintenance’ play an important role in delivering a quality streetscape to the local authority. These processes provide a certainty to the local council that they are receiving a well-established quality streetscape that meets their standards and that defects, and damage have been rectified.