SRLA (Simon Ronan Landscape Architects) is an international landscape architecture studio working on landmark cultural, hospitality, and urban projects across the Middle East and Europe. The practice is recognised for creating landscapes that merge contemporary design innovation with ecological intelligence, delivering destinations that are visionary, resilient, and culturally attuned.
Internationally, SRLA continues to deliver high-profile projects across Europe and the Middle East, consistently working at the intersection of architecture, culture, and ecology. Each project demonstrates the studio’s philosophy that landscapes are not merely backdrops, but active agents of cultural expression and environmental regeneration.
The studio is led by Simon Ronan, a landscape architect with a background in horticulture and ecology. His leadership brings a clear design vision that combines environmental intelligence with a commitment to pushing the boundaries of contemporary landscape practice. Under his direction, SRLA has developed a reputation for producing landscapes of exceptional ambition, crafted in collaboration with some of the world’s most respected architectural practices.
Simon Ronan BIO
Simon Ronan is founder of SRLA (Simon Ronan Landscape Architects), a studio of 14 landscape architects based in rural Skibbereen, West Cork. From this unlikely setting, the practice collaborates with some of the world’s leading international architects on landmark projects across the world. Its work spans luxury hotels, major cultural landscapes, and visionary masterplans, always with a focus on creating places that are pushing the boundaries of contemporary design and ecologically attuned.
Simon trained in Horticulture at the National Botanic Gardens and in Landscape Architecture at UCD, a background that underpins his philosophy of design rooted in ecology, craft, and regenerative thinking. His vision is to create landscapes that actively restore balance between human experience and the natural world. Simon is also co-founder of NATIVE, a regenerative landscape hotel in West Cork. NATIVE Ballydehob, opened in summer 2024 and reflects the same ethos of beauty, ecology, and community that runs through his design practice.
