Toombul Fresh Food Mall

Timber batten ceiling, linear pendant lighting, checkered terrazzo floor, open shopfront thresholds, fresh food precinct layout, commercial mall corridor, public seating nodes.

Fresh Food Mall Design Concept

#Australia
#Brisbane
#Mirvac
#entertainment
#Hospitality & Leisure

Design Clarity worked with Mirvac on the early stages of the Toombul Shopping Centre redevelopment direction. In under 3 weeks we presented a Fresh Food precinct schematic concept upgrade to allow leasing to key tenants to progress. The upgrade identified quick wins that provided maximum uplift for the Fresh Food mall anchored by Coles.

The scope included opening up the tenancies to achieve a ‘market feel’, shopfront and inter-tenancy divisions, treatment of common mall walls, explorations in flooring, ceilings, bulkheads, tenancy canopies, skylights, general mall finishes, customer pause points and furniture.

Suspended greenery installations utilize the high volume of the central atrium to inject biophilic elements deep into the public thoroughfare. Hanging planters drop from the structural skylight framework at staggered heights, softening the rigid lines of the surrounding bulkheads and retail signage.

Biophilic mall design, suspended hanging planters, industrial dome pendants, atrium skylight, timber wall paneling, retail food precinct, vertical spatial layering.

Open retail storefront, butcher shop layout, checkered tile flooring, timber batten ceiling, black pendant lighting, commercial mall seating, fresh food market precinct.

An open storefront threshold removes the physical barrier between individual fresh food retailers and the main mall corridor. This seamless edge allows the butcher shop's integrated refrigerated glass counters and cold product displays to function as part of the public walkway scenery.

Modular timber storage bins organize the fresh produce department right along the wide public concourse boundary. This layout uses open, low-height fruit and vegetable tables to pull the main corridor foot traffic naturally into the grocery store space without needing solid dividing walls.

Timber produce bins, fresh vegetable displays, price card signage, checkered floor tiles, hanging plant baskets, diagonal ceiling grid, open grocery store front.

Timber display crates, branded canvas market bag, checkered terrazzo tiles, hanging green plants, atrium skylight framing, retail wayfinding signage, fresh food precinct.

A timber display crate filled with fresh vegetables anchors the foreground of the central walkway, reinforcing the precinct's marketplace theme. This low-profile merchandising fixture introduces a rustic texture right into the main traffic path, offering a localized point of engagement that catches the attention of incoming shoppers.

An illuminated corporate logo marks the entrance threshold where the main pedestrian corridor transitions into the anchor supermarket. The architecture coordinates two distinct ceiling styles to define this high-traffic junction, balancing an open-grid timber canopy with a soaring daylight atrium overhead.

Supermarket storefront branding, slatted timber bulkheads, geometric ceiling lattice, hanging wicker baskets, industrial cord pendants, mall atrium skylight, retail tenant boundary.

Shopping center concourse layout, checkered terrazzo floor tiles, timber slat ceiling canopy, industrial black pendants, anchor tenant storefront entrance, mall corridor wayfinding, market theme merchandising.

A long, straight perspective down the main fresh food concourse demonstrates how the layout centers pedestrian traffic between major retail anchors. The architectural details work together to organize the long corridor, framing open store thresholds on both sides to maximize visibility for shoppers.

A large black sign panel with white lettering clearly identifies the fruit market tenancy at the high-level bulkhead line. The hanging signage is positioned strategically beneath a geometric timber lattice framework, using high contrast to capture shopper attention from across the open concourse.