MRG STUDIO

Boland’s bakery granted planning permission

February 2022

We are delighted that Dublin City Council has granted planning permission to the Google Ireland re-development of the Treasury Building.  The project aims to refurbish the existing building to enhance its 1950’s structural form and to reveal the building’s original form, whilst updating it to current modern architecture as a low-carbon, flexible workplace for the 21st century. The office scheme has been named Boland’s Bakery.

The redevelopment includes a new landscape and public realm at ground floor landscape to provide an inclusive, accessible approach to the main entrance and bicycle storage from Grand Canal Street. It also includes landscaped terraces on Level 1, 5, 6 and the roof. Landscape across all levels will provide outdoor amenities to Google’s employees and their guests. The proposed landscape provides strong ecological habitats to encourage biodiversity.

It's been a pleasure to work with the team, which includes AHMM, CORA, MeehanGreen, John Spain Associates. Looking forward to building it now!

We are seeking a studio manager

November 2021

MRG Studio is seeking a part time studio manager (8 to 16 hours per week) to join its office in London. You tasks will include:

• greeting visitors

• answering incoming phone calls

• organising incoming and outgoing post

• organising refreshments and lunch for visitors and meetings

• helping to keep the office clean and tidy

• ordering stationery and office equipment and managing studio printer supplies

• ordering weekly groceries

• supporting the ongoing studio day-remote working set up of the office: eg logistics, IT support, communications, diary management of staff/partner one-to-ones, etc

• general administration support for all members of staff including producing/binding of project reports and organising printing/mounting/delivery of presentation boards

• managing petty cash

• assisting with bid submissions

• organising social events and activities

To apply, please submit your CV to enquiries@mrgstudio.co.uk

We are an equal opportunities employer. We will offer a competitive salary based upon experience.

Blackfriars Road granted planning permission

September 2021

We’re celebrating planning consent for Southwark Charities’ 100% affordable housing development in Blackfriars, comprising 62 contemporary almshouses which will allow local elderly people facing hardship to live independently and affordably.

Our design is inspired by the site’s history. At the time of purchase in 1752, the site straddled tenter grounds on the western side and market gardens on the east, and this heritage of industry and production will be expressed in the tenter hook landscape forms and the integration of food crops in amenity planting.

93 Bollo Lane submitted for planning

July 2021

MRG Studio is pleased to have submitted planning for the redevelopment of 93 Bollo Lane in Ealing. The landscape is mostly located at roof level and consists of a variety of outdoor spaces for amenity and play.

The wide range of planting allows different landscape characters to emerge within a coherent sense of place, extending the sheltering and feeding season for local wildlife, improving the site’s biodiversity and contribution to the local environment.

New City Court 2 submitted for planning

June 2021

MRG Studio is pleased to be part of a design team led by AHMM, supporting a recent revised planning application at New City Court, London. The landscape comprises public realm on the ground floor, roof terraces and external amenity spaces in the proposed building.

Our new scheme features a ‘landscape lab’ experimenting in the creation, management and monitoring of an authentic woodland atop the tall building in this urban environment in Southwark.

MRG Studio is hiring

March 2021

MRG Studio is growing and are looking for a landscape architect or architect with at least 2 years of experience to join our team. Ours is a small and fast-paced practice, a great place for a designer to be involved in all aspects of the design process. Candidates should have landscape design skills and sensibilities; excellent writing skills; proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and AutoCAD. An ability to work with 3D models (Rhino, Revit, etc) would be great.

UK work eligibility required, as are a collaborative spirit and capacity to work independently. We are currently working from home but will be based in Clerkenwell when we return to work from our office. We are keen to bring someone on as soon as possible.

Please contact us on enquiries@mrgstudio.co.uk including your CV and portfolio.

MRG Studio appointed by HUB Group

February 2021

We are delighted to be appointed by HUB to design the landscape and public realm for Latitude Blue, a development in Leeds led by architects Carey Jones Chapman Tolcher along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The landscape and public realm design will aim to create an active and vibrant hub on a site rich in industrial and natural heritage.

MRG Studio is growing again!

December 2020

We are delighted to welcome Jean-François Pflumio to MRG Studio. Jean-François joins us as a Senior Landscape Architect, bringing extensive urban and landscape design experience and a fresh perspective to our practice.
Welcome to the MRG family, Jean-François!

MRG Studio appointed to design the landscape and public realm for a new Almhouses and office development on Blackfriars Road

August 2020

We are thrilled to have been appointed by Southwark Charities to design the landscape and public realm for a new Almhouses and office development on Blackfriars Road. The landscape and public realm will create a vibrant hub for residents, local charities, community users and office tenants. .

Woodward Road granted planning permission

May 2020

We are delighted that the Barking And Dagenham Council has unanimously resolved to grant planning permission to MRG Studio and Morris+Company’s scheme for a new development of affordable housing in the historic Becontree Estate area of Dagenham. The landscape comprises publicly accessible open space, communal spaces and streets, a play space and private amenity spaces.  The design strategy takes inspiration from the natural and community heritage of the Becontree Estate, connecting and contributing to the local ecology

MRG Studio wins first prize on 63 Madison Avenue international ideas competition

March 2020

We are delighted to be part of the winning team led by Wilkinson Eyre in the Metals in Construction magazine 2020 Design Challenge for 63 Madison Avenue in New York City.  Our team, which included Eckersley O'Callaghan, Gartner and Level Infrastructure, won first prize in the international ideas competition to upgrade an existing aging, energy-inefficient high-rise office building to comply with NYC’s Green New Deal goals and create a more desirable space for the building’s occupants.

The landscape design aims to complement the environmental and operational enhancements afforded by the new adaptive façade. The proposed planting scheme responds to a matrix of expected solar and ambient conditions (light, heat, humidity and seasonal variations) multiplied across the range of amenity spaces and facade components (balconies, winter gardens and terraces; shading devices and reflectors). Planting types for each combination establish parameters for plant species selections that can be customised for specific building tenants.

Stapleford Abbotts submitted for planning

January 2020

MRG Studio is pleased to have submitted planning for the redevelopment of Oak Hill Road in Stapleford Abbotts. Our landscape scheme consists of a new village green and play spaces, green footpaths and generous private amenity spaces. The proposed landscape setting will keep this sensitive site sympathetic to its local context whilst creating amenities for a new community.  Working closely with MKA Ecology and Peter Brett Associates, we have created a landscape design to preserve existing healthy habitats and enhance biodiversity and floodwater management across the site.

MRG Studio & Barker Langham win bid for Strategic and Development works at Wimbledon & Putney Commons and the Wimbledon Windmill Museum

October 2019

We are thrilled to start working with Barker Langham on ‘Commons for the Next Generations, Green Space for All’, a strategy masterplan for Wimbledon and Putney Commons. The work will help ensure the Commons are protected, preserved and available for future generations to enjoy.

Wimbledon and Putney Commons are a magnificent and unique resource, one of London’s greatest assets. Although the Commons are cherished and enormously valued for their ecological and recreational purposes, there are opportunities to further develop educational and social well-being purposes as well as broaden public engagement so the Commons can become more inclusive.

Planning Granted for Canada Water Masterplan

October 2019

We are delighted that Southwark Council has resolved to grant planning permission for British Land’s Canada Water masterplan. MRG Studio provided landscape support to Morris + Company’s scheme for Plot K1 – streetscape and a courtyard garden looking out on to the Russia Dock Woodland for 79 affordable new homes. The landscape creates sense of place drawing from natural and cultural heritage of the site, with a strong relationship between the open courtyard and the Woodland. We look forward to developing our landscape proposals in the next design stages!

Planning Granted for East Oxford Street

August 2019

We are thrilled that our project on East Oxford Street has been granted planning permission. AHMM architects have led the redevelopment of a site at 29-43 Oxford Street and 17-19 Soho Square.  We have designed a rooftop garden to provide a quiet retreat for local residents and workers, a refuge from the noise and congestion of East Oxford Street and Soho Square Gardens.

The upper terrace on Level 8 will feel open to the sky and the city from its elevation above the surrounding streets. The lower garden on Level 7 will feel sheltered and intimate, with more lush planting and smaller seating areas. As always, it has been a pleasure to work with our colleagues at AHMM Architects and DP9 and we look forward to start work on the next stages!

Planning Approval for Tide Mills Footbridge

July 2019

MRG Studio is thrilled to announce that planning approval has been granted for the Tide Mills Bridge in East Sussex. We have designed a landscape to feel as though it has always been there, a subtle adjustment to the existing vegetation to take advantage of the new daily and seasonally shifting conditions of light and shade, exposure and shelter, for the benefit of visitors and local wildlife alike.

Planning Approval for Woolbeding Glasshouse and Gardens

March 2019

MRG Studio is pleased to announce that planning approval has been granted for the Woolbeding Glasshouse and Gardens in a National Trust site in the South Downs National Park. The gardens will display planting from habitats along the historical Silk Route. We look forward to starting construction later this year!!

We are going to Mipim 2019

March 2019

We are looking forward to speaking with architects and developers at Mipim2019 about the value of landscape and public realm design in developments. We're bringing the benefits of external landscapes right into our buildings. Do get in touch to arrange a meeting. See you in Cannes!

It is our fifth birthday!

January 2019

We are delighted to have moved offices on MRG Studio’s fifth birthday.  Our dynamic team is experienced in architecture, urban design, landscape and horticulture. Big thanks to all our wonderful clients and colleagues who have supported us so far. We look forward to many more years of exciting projects and collaborations

Woolbeding Glasshouse and Gardens submitted for planning

November 2018

MRG Studio is pleased to have submitted planning for Woolbeding Glasshouse and Gardens, in a NationalTrust site in the South Downs National Park.  It has been a pleasure to work with our colleagues from Heatherwick Studio, who lead the team and the design of the glasshouse, Fergus Garrett, Eckersley O’Callaghan, Atelier Ten, Stuart A Johnson, Tim O’Hare Associates and Irritech Ltd

The Kensington opens to the public

September 2018

MRG Studio is pleased to announce our collaboration with Zaha Hadid Architects for JCDecaux in West London which was unveiled to the public last week. "The Kensington" is a unique digital canvas on West Cromwell Road, set within a carefully considered landscape that connects the form and scale of the sculpture to its urban context.

Bernard Works wins NLA Award

July 2018

MRG Studio is thrilled to announce that Bernard Works has won in the mixed use category at this year's NLA Awards. The awards recognise the very best projects across 15 sectors of the built environment that contribute to make London a better place to live, work, move around and socialise.

Planning approval for Bernard Works!

April 2018

Duggan Morris Architects and MRG Studio have achieved planning consent for a new, mixed-use scheme in South Tottenham. 

Jose Rosa and Jennifer Mui, Directors at MRG Studio said: “From the outset, we wanted to create a landscape scheme which would provide long-term, lasting benefit to the residents, community and visitors, reflective of the area’s rich industrial heritage. Our proposal focuses on a concept of working ‘habitats’ - habitats that work for humans, industry and the environment - each connected and mutually supportive. We are delighted that Bernard Works has been granted planning approval as an exciting and innovative new development with the end user strongly at its centre.”

Newton Prep starts on site

June 2017

Excavation has started at Newton Prep, where we are refurbishing the EYFS playground to create a softer, planted setting for learning, playing and daydreaming. It will also help the school present a warmer welcome to the community and help alleviate the effects of air pollution along the heavily trafficked Battersea Park Road. Stay tuned for updates throughout this summer!

KGX1 submitted to Camden Council for Reserved Matters approval

June 2017

MRG Studio is pleased to support and be involved with the KGX1 project for Google, which has just been submitted to Camden Council for Reserved Matters approval.

Bernard Works public consultation

May 2017

MRG Studio joined the first public consultation last night for Bernard Works, a new live-work development in South Tottenham led by Duggan Morris. Here is Jenn fielding landscape and public realm questions… Thanks to all who braved the rain to join us!

New landscape installation at 20 Old Bailey

March 2017

We are delighted to be working with Acrylicize and Buckley Gray Yeoman architects to design a new internal landscape installation at Blackstone’s major refurbishment at 20 Old Bailey.

India Quay Phase 2 submitted for planning

February 2017

We have been working with 7N Architects on the office side of the India Quay development in Fountainbridge. The project now with the City of Edinburgh Council for planning permission!

Read the full article in the Architects' Journal here.

Detailed planning granted for Phase One of India Quay

January 2017

Detailed planning has been granted for the first phase of India Quay Development in Edinburgh – we have enjoyed the journey with our colleagues at 7N Architects and hope to start the next stage soon!