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Toby Neilson
Director BA(Hons) MArch PGDipArch ARB

Toby is an accomplished Architect and Company Director with over 20 years of experience in the architecture and construction industry, specialising in commercial development strategy and the adaptive re-use of existing buildings.
Expertise spans diverse sectors, including commercial, master-planning, and campus developments, with a particular focus on regeneration, workplace retrofit, and building repositioning
Over six years, Toby delivered a global co-location program for WPP, transforming diverse sites, including a telephone exchange in Madrid and a Ceramics factory in Milan, into vibrant, contemporary workspaces.
He has also overseen deep retrofit projects on London’s Southbank, including Sea Containers, Rose Court and the former FT HQ building at One Southwark Bridge.
Toby splits his time between the UK and Brazil where previously he established a project studio in São Paulo, to complete WPP’s largest campus there. Out of the office he serves as an AJRetrofit Awards judge and UCL Part 3 Professional Examiner.