Harris Bugg Studio

*Appointment news - Barbican Conservatory*   We are thrilled to be appointed to join the team dedicated to the renewal of the iconic Barbican Conservatory. We will be working closely with @alliesandmorrison @asifkhan.now @buro_happold and Head Gardener Marta Lowcewicz @martacitygardener and her team on the project.   After 40+ years, the Conservatory’s infrastructure is at a critical tipping point: ⚡️ The glass envelope is failing, causing significant botanic and surfaces deterioration. ⚡️ Cracks in the concrete structure are causing leaks, damaging the theatre below. ⚡️ Outdated technical and operational systems no longer support the incredible horticultural work of the team. ⚡️ Major accessibility challenges mean the space is not yet a place everyone can enjoy.   What will the renewal mean? 🌱 Revitalising planting: Plants remain the star of the show, with world class environmental conditions and facilities 🌱 Improving accessibility: New plans will open up previously inaccessible and closed off areas, ensuring the space is welcoming and inclusive for all. 🌱 Future-proofing: Combining cutting-edge innovation and sustainability credentials to secure the Conservatory for generations to come.   Within our team, we have brought together an incredible cohort of heritage and horticultural specialists to ensure this transformation is considered, rigorous and appropriate. Joining us are horticultural experts @matt.pottage , Christopher Young, and Phil Griffiths, alongside modernist landscape history authority @karen_fitzsimon “Cinematic and monumental, the Barbican Conservatory is a place unlike any other. Horticulture, history, design—all wrapped into unparalleled eco-brutalist experience. It’s a place where Londoners know they can lose themselves in the planting and architecture, and where first-time visitors stand open-mouthed in wonder. To have the opportunity to only work on it ourselves, but to also be able bring together a handpicked team of botanic and heritage experts at the top of their game to work with on a day-to-day basis—this is the dream project of a lifetime.” @charloharris 📷 @alistergthorpe #harrisbuggstudio #barbicanconservatory #ecomodernism

Totally delighted to receive the Best in Show award for Horatio's Garden. What an absolute honour - we are thrilled!⁠ Thank you to everyone who played a part in making this garden.⁠ ⁠ #gardens #gardening #gardendesign #gardeninspiration #landscape #rhschelseaflowershow #gardensforgoodcauses #horatiosgardenchelsea #projectgivingback #chelseaflowershow

RHS Bridgewater has won first prize in the European Garden Awards, in the Design or Concept of a Contemporary Park or Garden category 🏆🥇🏆 We are so thrilled for the RHS, for the fantastic Bridgewater garden teams and for all the amazing volunteers who have made it such a very special place. It’s also recognition of the many who were involved in the realisation of this fifth public garden for the RHS - contractors, fabricators and nurseries. A huge and remarkable team effort. We’re honoured to have played a very small part in the story with the design of the kitchen garden, and to have the opportunity to work with the legendary @tomstuartsmith whose inspired design for Bridgewater has made this such a beautiful place. (📷 @bigladderphotographer ) #EGHN #EuropeanGardenHeritageNetwork #EGA22 #EuropeanGardenAwards #HarrisBuggStudio #TomStuartSmith #GardenDesign #WalledGarden #Woodland #Meadow #WaterGarden #Horticulture #GardenAwards #GardensOfEurope #rhs #RhsBridgewater #Salford #VisitSalford #VisitManchester #VisitEngland

In 2031, the National Trust for Scotland will celebrate its 100-year anniversary and, to mark the occasion, it has asked the award-winning Harris Bugg Studio to create a Centenary Garden at one of its most impressive estates. ✨ Newhailes House & Gardens in Musselburgh, five miles east of Edinburgh, will get a new three-acre garden within its historic walled enclosure – formerly the estate's Flower Garden. The new plans will draw on 200-year-old designs, dating back to a time when Newhailes was home to an independent, curious and progressive woman of the Scottish Enlightenment, Miss Christian Dalrymple. After inheriting the house in 1792, she commissioned horticulturist and garden designer John Hay to create a new garden in the early 1800s, and although it was never built, Hay's drawings survived... 🔗 Find out more at the link in our bio 📸 @harrisbuggstudio ✍️ Alice Tuffery #design #gardendesign #designmygarden #designinspiration #plantingdesign #inspiringgardens #gardening #gardens #horticulture #gardensofinstagram #plants #garden #plantinginspiration

Thank you @houseandgardenuk for including the studio in your top 25 practices. Garden and planting design is a collective endeavour: clients, horticulturalists, contractors, craftspeople, fabricators, other design disciplines, and of course a studio full of brilliant, committed people (past and present) who design, deliver and develop such an array of residential, historic, cultural, botanical and public gardens. So this generous acknowledgment by H&G is for all. 📷 @mariannemajerus

An amazing evening at the Civic Trust Awards last night, where Horatio’s Garden Sheffield & East came away with a hat trick! We were honoured to receive a Civic Trust Award 2026, recognising excellence in the built environment. We also received a Selwyn Goldsmith Universal Design Award, celebrating places that put dignity, choice and independence at the heart of design. And we were incredibly proud to receive the 2026 Special Award for Neuro-Inclusive Places. The judges described it as “an exemplar of inclusive, patient-led design”, “shaped by its users, loved by its volunteers, and rooted in the fabric of Sheffield’s natural and industrial heritage”. They spoke too about the garden as a place that can “restore agency, connection and quality of life”, and commented that “by placing dignity, choice and independence at the heart of the design, the project sets an outstanding benchmark for universal design within healthcare landscapes.” For the Neuro-Inclusive Places Award, they recognised it as “an exceptional example of how spaces can holistically support neurodivergent users without compromising on design excellence” This garden has been shaped by hundreds of people, from the patients and clinical staff who helped guide its development, to those who helped fund it, those who delivered it, and the gardening team who care for it and help it grow. Thank you to the judges and organisers of @civictrustawards for a fantastic night! Garden photography @britt.willoughby.photography

A project emerging out of the winter clag is starting to reveal some fun details. This design by @harrisbuggstudio uses lots of reclaimed materials, some won from site, and a few new materials to tone with the existing. Check out the blue lias paving with traditional pointing - love that. Swipe along, you’ll even see Rob smiling. It’s amazing what positivity some dry weather and sunshine can bring! Still lots to do but you can get a feel for what’s coming. Thanks to Rob, Toby, Ross, Bran and Alex on site too. Happy days. . . . #waterartisans #gardens #details #reclaimed #craftsmanship

*News!* Planning permission granted for the Barbican Renewal Programme. A serious milestone for an iconic place, and we’re proud to be part of the team. This has been a huge effort led by @alliesandmorrison and The Planning Lab, working closely with @buro_happold @asifkhan.now and ourselves, in ongoing dialogue with the City of London Corporation and consultees including @c20society and @historicengland . We’re leading on the Conservatory planting renewal and long-term curatorial strategy, working closely with Conservatory Head Gardener @martacitygardener and the horticultural team. Planning approval matters, because it enables a full renewal of the Conservatory glass roof, building fabric and operational systems, so the infrastructure properly serves the horticultural work and the living collection can thrive. Over the past 18 months we’ve been deep in the project: heritage and archival research; mapping internal conditions; the first full audit of the planting; and close collaboration with Allies & Morrison and Buro Happold on the architectural, structural and environmental constraints and opportunities. In parallel we’ve researched specialist growers and suppliers and developed planting plans to refine structure and character for this extraordinary eco-Brutalist garden. Peer review and expert advice has been provided by an incredible cohort of heritage and horticultural leaders in their field we have assembled as part of our team to ensure our work is rigorous and considered - @matt.pottage , Christopher Young, Phil Griffiths, @andyhamiltonstudio and modernist landscape history authority @karen_fitzsimon The Conservatory sits within Phase 1 of Barbican Renewal: a conservation-led programme to repair and revitalise the Centre, with major upgrades to accessibility and environmental performance ahead of the Barbican’s 50th anniversary in 2032. When it reopens, it will move from around 30% to fully accessible, and be open every day, so everyone can enjoy this world class Brutalist garden. Visual: @_kincreatives_

Modular are excited to be installing this fantastic terrace refurbishment. Designed by @harrisbuggstudio for @fabrixlondon and set within the iconic City of London with views to St Paul’s Cathederal. Install pictures to follow. Images @harrisbuggstudio

Happy New Year everyone! A lovely start to 2026 - @horatiosgarden Sheffield & East designed by @harrisbuggstudio has been further shortlisted as one of just six projects from over 300 entries across the UK for the Selwyn Goldsmith Universal Design Awards. This award celebrates places that have a genuinely people-centred approach, going well beyond minimum standards to create inclusive, dignified, intuitive to use and welcoming places. We are hugely proud to see this work recognised and the overall winner will be announced in March. In addition, the garden has been selected as one of the final 46 winning national and international projects from over 300 applications by the Civic Trust Awards, and will receive either the Civic Trust Award or a Highly Commended at the same ceremony in March. These awards acknowledge projects that make a meaningful difference to their place and community. Thank you to the judging panel @civictrustawards for their time to visit the garden and for their consideration of it. A place like Horatios Garden Sheffield & East only exists because of a huge team of people and these an awards are for everyone involved - those who funded it and continue to support it financially; those involved in designing, building and planting it; and those who look after it and garden it with such care, expertise and energy.

Merry Christmas from all of us at the studio (here shown as our sweet biscuity selves thanks to @thegingerbreadcity ) It’s been a busy year working on residential, commercial and botanic gardens - from Cornwall to the Cotswolds, from the South Bank to Sweden, from the Barbican to North Berwick. We’re grateful to all the clients, design collaborators, contractors, nurseries, plantspeople, fabricators, specialists, craftspeople and makers we have had the privilege to work with in 2025. Thank you for entrusting us with your planting, garden and landscape projects. The studio is closed over the festive period and will reopen on Tuesday 6th January 2026. Here’s to a happy, healthy new year ahead!

Awards news: We are delighted that Horatio’s Garden Sheffield & East, designed by Harris Bugg Studio, has been selected as both a 2026 Civic Trust Awards Regional Finalist and a 2026 Selwyn Goldsmith Universal Design Awards Regional Finalist. The @civictrustawards Awards look for projects that make a meaningful difference to their place and community. Being named a regional finalist tells us the judges see real value in the garden’s design, accessibility and contribution to the hospital and its wider civic setting. The project now goes forward to the national stage, with results announced early next year. The Selwyn Goldsmith Awards focus on design that works for everyone. They recognise places that are welcoming, intuitive to use and support people of all abilities to move through them with dignity. To be considered, a project must be exemplar - go well beyond minimum regulations and show a genuinely people-centred approach. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in March. A place like Horatio’s Garden Sheffield & East only exists because of a huge team and so this is wonderful recognition for every single person involved in this special place. Thank you to those who funded it and continue to support it financially, to everyone involved in designing, building and planting it, and to those who now look after it with such care, expertise and energy. 📷 @britt.willoughby.photography #harrisbuggstudio