We are a passionate and collaborative design studio that imagines and realizes beautiful, sustainable landscapes.
For over 40 years, Janet Rosenberg & Studio (JRS) has created compelling landscapes and intelligent urban spaces that have significantly advanced the practice of landscape architecture in Canada. Our standard for design excellence combines impactful horticultural design, diverse materials, and thoughtful composition with a strong commitment to sustainability and a sophisticated cross-disciplinary approach to complex urban projects.
Founded in 1983 by Janet Rosenberg, JRS is a certified WBE Canada Diverse Supplier that has grown into one of Canada’s largest and most influential landscape architecture and urban design practices. The recipient of numerous awards, the studio has cultivated a dynamic culture of creativity, innovation, and mentorship that continues to shape the next generation of design leaders. JRS is recognized for its extensive and award-winning portfolio of work that includes public, commercial, and institutional landscapes, as well as private residential gardens, green roofs, and condominium communities. Through a commitment to four key design drivers—holistic and collaborative approaches, resilient and responsive solutions, high-performance design, and placemaking and wellness—we strive to create spaces that are beautiful, functional, and enduring.
With four principals and over 25 landscape architects, urban designers, and horticulturists, our team brings broad collective experience delivering complex projects with large integrated consultant teams and diverse stakeholders. Based in our studio in midtown Toronto, we provide full consulting services from master planning and conceptual design through construction documents and contract administration.
JRS brings a collaborative, creative, and forward-thinking approach to shaping meaningful landscapes in both the private and public realm.
Land Acknowledgment
We wish to acknowledge this land on which JRS operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
About Janet Rosenberg
Janet Rosenberg is one of Canada’s foremost landscape architects and a trailblazer in the profession.
An enthusiastic defender of the public realm, Janet has helped cultivate a better civic understanding of the vital role landscape architecture plays in fostering urban identity, communal and individual well-being, and rewarding everyday life experiences. Her reputation for delivering sophisticated design, trusted results, and impassioned advocacy has influenced the shape of the profession and the quality of public realm projects across Canada.
A longstanding and ardent supporter of women designers and artists, Janet has created a studio environment at JRS — one of a handful of woman-owned landscape architecture studios that currently employs over 30 people — that supports women to progress their careers while raising families.