About
MCB PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Master-Planning, Architecture & Engineering Ltd. Formerly Freestyle Architecture Ltd, founded in 2007 in London, England
MCB Professional Services Ltd (since 2014), formerly Free Style Architectural Services Ltd (since 2007), offered Urban & Resorts Master-Planning, Eng & Arch projects. The main clients were HOK ("the largest US architecture and engineering firm") and ARUP ("British multinational professional services firm")
It was registered in 2007 in London by Maria Cristina Brodu, after she worked for 1 year (Part2 RIBA) in the masterplanning department of RTKL ("one of the largest design firms in the world prior to its acquisition by Arcadis")
Project work by Maria Cristina Brodu include: Quingdao Movie City Masterplan in China; Khartum Cultural City Masterplan in Sudan; Al Ain Marriot Resort Masterplan in the UAE; Bodrum Golf Resort Masterplan in Turkey; Bawadi Dubai Mixed Use Masterplan in the UAE; Mumbai Artificial Islands Masterplan in India; Queenstown Mixed Use Masterplan in NZ; monument-design as Bakun Freedom Tower in Azerbaijan (individually authored by her in 2008 for HOK); architectural projects from RIBA stage 1 to 4; design project-management. (Pro-bono: unpaid successful Planning Applications in London, England, from 2012 to 2014).
Maria Cristina Brodu holds two professional licenses as Engineer and Architect, which allow her to register to professional boards such as the ARB, RIBA, ECCCE, to trade as a charted Architect and Engineer in England and in the E.U.
Maria Cristina Brodu left her career in urban planning, engineering and architecture in 2015, following her achieved pursuit of a career shift to management consulting, through a Graduate Program employment at Ernst & Young where she worked as a consultant.
(* note: the prior name of this Ltd is not on the online Company House register as it was dissolved via voluntary striking off procedure - under sec. 1003 of the Companies Act 2006 - when MCB went to study in the USA)
(** MCB worked as a contractor, invoicing through this Ltd the firms were she worked, reporting directly to directors only since 2006)
IndustryArchitecture and Planning