ApartmentsTaryn ParisWed 03 Jun 26
Sydney’s Bigeni Family Files Carindale Highrise Plan
Sydney-based residential developer Parkmor has filed a development application with the Brisbane City Council for a 253-apartment tower at Carina Heights.
The private developer’s move into the growth suburb would stake an early claim in one of Brisbane’s next major high-density growth corridors.
The Plus Studio–designed tower is proposed for a 9050sq m site at 1202 Creek Road, next to the Carindale Shopping Centre bus interchange.
It follows the council’s proposed Tailored Amendment Package for the Carindale major centre, which has designated towers of 30 storeys and above for the precinct.
Parkmor’s proposal is among the first private-sector responses to that planning signal, but crucially the site is not included in the proposed planning overlay, which the development team said was an oversight.
Conceived as a “Pavilion in the Bush” the scheme draws its architectural identity from a parkland corridor that flanks the site, according to Plus Studio director Danny Juric.
“The Carindale precinct is on the cusp of significant change and this project presented a rare opportunity to define what high-density living at the forest edge could become,” Juric said.
“Every aspect of the design—from the compact footprint to the subtropical passive strategies and biophilic material palette—responds directly to the site’s natural qualities.”
Curved balconies wrap the façade in a fluid form, while the building’s compact footprint preserves about 72 per cent of the site as open space and existing bushland—a ratio the developer said demonstrated that density and environmental stewardship could co-exist.
The tower would deliver a mix of one to five-bedroom apartments across 25 levels, including a penthouse collection on level 23 with internal areas of more than 200 square metres.
Residents would have access to more than 1300sq m of rooftop amenity on level 25, including a pool, sauna, hot and cold plunge pools, private dining, barbecue pavilions, a meditation garden, and two bookable private terraces.
For Parkmor — the development vehicle of the Bigeni family — the lodgement marks a deliberate push into Queensland’s growth corridors.
The group filed a separate application with the Moreton Bay City Council in late 2025 for a two-tower, 231-apartment project at Mango Hill, next to the Mango Hill Marketplace and within 250 m of its train station.
Parkmor director Joel Bigeni said the projects were not just delivering housing supply.
“We are setting a new architectural benchmark for suburban density,” Bigeni said.
“By unlocking underutilised land right next to major transit infrastructure, we are showing how sophisticated residential design can seamlessly coexist with significant environmental preservation.”
Public consultation on the Tailored Amendment Package for Carindale has just concluded and the council will now review submissions.
