Malcolm Reading Consultants is an owner-managed consultancy. Typically, clients seek our help when commissioning new buildings or refurbishing and conserving existing ones. They benefit from having someone at their side who is focused on their objectives.
Specialising in cultural, educational and regeneration work, MRC has helped organisations as diverse and high-profile as The Foreign Office, St Martin-in-the-Fields, White Cube, NATO, The Supreme Court, The Royal Institution and The National Maritime Museum.
We have a reputation for achieving outstanding design. One of the first consultancies to work with the Heritage Lottery Fund we have secured nearly £60m of funding from the HLF, on behalf of our clients — an application success rate of 96 per cent.
MRC is also the leading private organiser of architectural competitions in the UK. Recent work includes the competitions for Glasgow School of Art, the UK Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010, King’s Cross Square, British Antarctic Survey and Central Park Bridge for the London Olympic site.
Malcolm Reading trained as an architect and founded the company in 1996. Since 2005 he has been a Trustee to Historic Royal Palaces and is currently Chair of the Tower of London UNESCO World Heritage Site Consultative Committee. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, the Royal Society of Arts and an honorary fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
He is supported by an energetic professional team with a varied background in architecture, project management, archaeology, and history of art; and with both commercial and public sector experience.
