We are so happy our Marina Strotz has been selected as a RIBA Rising Star 2024 ! 🌟 More info here.

As associate director in the practice, Marina leads by doing (with hands typically covered in soil), fostering kindness and sustainability, and has helped create our studio culture of equality, a true change maker with plants and technology as her medium.
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Within the practice she has led the design and our physical delivery of several pocket parks working closely with communities and volunteers. Together, delivering meaningful collaboration by making spaces which unite communities and creates a legacy that continues to grow.

Go marina 🥳 , this marks the third member of our practice shortlisted in recent years for this recognition.

Marina’s passion for integrating nature into the built environment led her to pursue a Royal Horticultural Society course at Winterbourne in Birmingham whilst working full time as an Architect. As part of a small collective, she helped design, fundraise for, and build the ‘Wander and Wonder’ garden, which was awarded Gold at BBC Gardener’s World Live 2023. This garden now serves as a therapeutic space at Rookery Gardens, an assisted-living mental health service under the NHS Trust and Birmingham Mind.