Logan Hyperdome

We have looked after the interior planting at Logan Hyperdome since 2006. In 2021 we supplied and installed the greenery through the centre’s North Mall upgrade.

The client

Logan Hyperdome is one of the largest centres in Logan, south of Brisbane. We have maintained its interior planting since 2006, and its exterior landscaping alongside it. The centre has changed hands over those two decades, most recently to MA Financial in 2025. The planting contract has not changed with it.

Why retail is hard

Shopping centres are among the most demanding interior environments in the country for living plants. Trading hours are long, foot traffic never really stops, and the conditions change from one end of a mall to the other. A skylit walkway, a dim corridor, a hot entry and a dining precinct glazed down one side all sit within a few minutes of each other, and a plant that holds condition in one of them will fail in the next.

The North Mall, 2021

The award-winning, multi-million-dollar North Mall upgrade was the first stage of a staged redevelopment of the centre. It brought a relocated Woolworths, new play spaces and parking guidance through the car parks. Cavill Architect’s theme drew on the Queensland tropics: volume, natural light, and greenery carried overhead as well as at floor level.

We supplied and installed the interior planting through it.

The planters were part of the architecture rather than ours to specify. Custom seat planters and bowls were designed into the scheme, which made the work a matter of fitting the planting to someone else’s hard landscaping: species scaled to pots that are wide and low, foliage with enough presence to read across a mall, and enough density at the base that a planter looks considered from every side rather than only from the front.

The planting

The palette leans on large-leaf foliage that reads from a distance, because most people see it in passing rather than standing still: fiddle leaf fig, monstera, golden cane palm, dracaena and rubber plant, with aglaonema, spider plant and strappy underplanting filling the bases. There is nothing exotic in that list, and that is deliberate. In a building this busy, species that hold condition under constant traffic do more for the space than species chosen to be interesting.

Planting runs through the malls, the dining precinct and the common areas.

Maintenance

The centre has a dedicated plant technician who services it weekly. That covers watering, feeding, pruning, cleaning foliage, dust removal, checking for pests, and swapping out anything that has started to go backwards. Replacement and remedial work happens outside trading hours, with tools and green waste cleared before the doors open.

A shopping centre gives you nowhere to hide. Planting that is struggling is seen by everyone who walks past it, so the work is to change a plant before anyone notices it needed changing.

Twenty years

We have held this site through two decades of refurbishments, tenancy changes and changes of ownership. That is the part worth saying plainly: the centre has been rebuilt around the planting more than once, and the planting has stayed.