LONDON | MILANO | PARIS
mono nexo brings senior design and strategic thinking to ambitious projects across the UK, Italy and France.We help clients shape opportunities, unlock assets and create distinctive places — assembling the right architecture, design and specialist team around each brief.Every commission is led directly and selectively.Creative | Connected | Unconfined
image: concept proposal for 'Basalt House' annex
strategic partner
senior thinking / flexible commitment
Some opportunities need senior judgement before they need a full team.We work alongside investors, developers, operators and design-led businesses to unlock opportunities, shape strategy and accelerate growth.Senior support can be retained, fractional or project-specific — spanning design and development strategy, asset positioning, client-side leadership and business growth.
uk
home ground / broad perspective
mono nexo is headquartered in Kent, with a co-working presence in central London.Our experience spans more than three decades of projects across the UK and Europe, including workplace, residential, hospitality, retail, student living and complex refurbishment.That breadth allows us to bring ideas and commercial understanding from one sector and market into another.
italia
Siamo qua per voi.mono nexo has an active team in Milan, with connections and capability from Torino to Taormina.Our approach is informed by more than 15 years of living and practising in Sicily, providing deep cultural fluency and long-standing professional relationships throughout the country. Siamo di casa.Our first Milan-based project was secured in Autumn 2025, marking the start of a renewed Italian presence serving international corporate and private clients.
france
À vos côtés, dès l’origine.mono nexo operates in France through a long-standing Paris-based affiliate practice in which it holds a strategic ownership interest.Building on 18 years of leading projects in Paris for tp bennett architects, we have a direct line to the city’s top consultants and project managers. Clients include: JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Meta, Allen & Overy, Abbvie, Bouygues Immobilier.We lead the design vision and ensure it is realised with precision on the ground.
place / time / beauty
residential
mono nexo specialises in exceptional private residences, from Kent to Mount Etna.We work with individuals who value architectural clarity and ambition. Each project is shaped by a considered understanding of place, purpose, and nature, resulting in unique solutions.
We do not pursue planning consent through imitation. Instead, we create architecture of conviction — composed, assured and built to endure.The August 2026 NPPF has altered the planning balance: we believe more in favour of small developments.A limited number of residential projects are undertaken each year to ensure direct senior involvement.> Get in touch for a free initial consultation of your site.
[image: Pilgrims' Way Residence, North Kent Downs]
eat / sleep / relax / play
hospitality
Each hotel, restaurant or bar that we design, expresses the individuality of place.
We seek out the character of days-gone-by that perhaps has been neglected, we value it, re-invigorate it and give it a new twist.
Currently working on two feasibility studies to upgrade historic modern Italian hotels.We attend key industry events such as Sleeper Sessions to keep adjourned and well-connected.[image: Confidential project - revaluing historic details with contemporary touches]
restore / reactivate / nurture
culture/community
In Sicily, we've designed museums, theatres and arts centres. We're currently engaged with Legambiente, to envisage a long-term cultural use that would justify the capital investment necessary to recover the south coast landmark 'Fornace Penna'.In Kent, we have produced proposals for a co-working community hub and advised on a youth club/meanwhile-use business park. Also successfully campaigning to save the ex-Gurdwara in Gravesend, via conversion instead of demolition and redevelopment.[image: Fornace Penna, also known as 'La Mannara' from the TV series 'Montalbano']
draw before you decide
asset repositioning
With our pan-European experience, in synergy with our trusted local partners, we bring together working knowledge of local code, market values and international references, to be able to review your asset or potential purchase, and advise on how to add value. If an existing building, by an expansion, reconfiguration, an energy efficient makeover, or re-styling. If a development site, by strategising the best route to planning consent.> Get in touch to receive our 'Asset Repositioning Guide:Three Cities'.[image: Initial proposals to invigorate the Aurora Building, Glasgow (NA x tp bennett)]
engage / inspire / focus / flex
workplace interiors
Gone are the days of global design standards. No more 'one size fits all'. Now clients are talent focused and location sensitive - Paris, Texas isn't the same as Paris, France... Brera isn't Brazil.
We understand that inspiring workplaces are needed to attract and retain the best staff, and to get people into the office to collaborate, coach and create together.
“If you spend eight hours of your day at work, and eight hours at home, there is no reason why your workplace should be any less of a community than your home.” Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language.
> Get in touch to receive our Workplace sector Brochure.[image: 'The Bothy' at Barclays Innovation Centre, Canary Wharf (NA x tpbennett)]
"There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside" (Cicero)
resi interiors
The home is possibly the most important place in the world.
Whether it's speculative apartments (luxury on a budget), your villa in Tuscany (rustic elegance), or a penthouse pied-a-terre (opulence), we will apply good taste and practicality to create a welcoming abode imbued with personality.With contemporary mixed-use projects incorporating 'blended living' combinations, an understanding of the commercial drivers is crucial.[image: Grosvenor St, London (NA x tp bennett)]
be the brand
retail interiors
A successful retail outlet immerses the customer in the brand, creating an appropriate theatrical backdrop to promote merc. It's a real world immersive UX. Stores compete for attraction, must maximise display and need to remain actual.
Circular economy materials can greatly reduce environmental impact.
Fit-out is fast and complex. We are flexible and adaptive.Watch the Nike video in the link below >[image: Nike Rise store, WhiteCity, London (NA x tp bennett)]
SHARED EXPERIENCE / COMMUNITY / STUDY FOCUS / PERSONAL SPACE
student living
Like many sectors, student living has its own unique drivers. Alongside the need for efficiency and standardisation to bedrooms, the amentity areas necessitate an in-depth understanding of how to maximise space for a multiplicity of uses, future flexibility, and designing for neurodiversity.We have provided a monitoring role on behalf of investors and operators, to ensure that designs by others who don't know the sector so well achieve the best possible outcome.[image: Laude Living Bologna (NA x tp bennett)]
beauty is in the detail
product design
By using quality products, artfully juxtaposed, whether refined or rustic, we compose timeless designs that will last decades and still be considered glamourous.
We work with product manufacturers to create unique variants for site-specific installations - as if they were works of art.[image: Bespoke version of the SHY system designed with Bec Brittain in NYC, combined with TASSEL pendants by Apparatus, also NYC]
touch the earth lightly
sustainability
There's a lot of greenwash out there (e.g. products marketed as 'sustainable' when there barely are; certified CE but made in China; 'sold' in Australia and shipped to Europe!).
So we apply a common-sense approach - if it's made from petrochemicals (e.g. LVT), it's probably bad for the environment; if it's natural and needs low level processing or finishing, then it can't be that bad (e.g. marble); if it's circular (can be re-used or re-cycled into new product) then that a virtuous cycle.
[image: Magnaglass ingredients - just glass, re-sintered into beautiful panels (this is production waste from glass-house manufacture). Used in slabs to re-clad a reception desk for JP Morgan, Canary Wharf]
design approach
think human
To quote Thomas Heatherwick from 'Humanise': "Humans are naturally curious, intelligent and easily bored...and like just the right combination of complexity and repetition"
With music, we recognise that different styles apply different degrees of each (think punk rock vs baroque).
Similarly, space plays with void and solid; light with dark; place with familiarity and the novel; narrative with the known and the mystic; materiality with smooth and texture; colour with chroma and tone.
Working with such toolboxes, we designers are fortunate to be able to enrich our fellow humans' lives, manifesting thought into reality.
[image: sketch for Kantar offices, Porto]
founder profile
Neege Allen is an architect, designer and strategic adviser with more than three decades’ experience across architecture, interiors and property.Before establishing mono nexo, he spent 18 years as a Director and LLP member of tp bennett, leading projects, client relationships and sector growth across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Earlier, he lived and practised in Sicily for 15 years.Today he works selectively across the UK, Italy and France, combining direct involvement with specialist teams assembled around each opportunity.Alongside his professional work, his role as Trustee of charities for the homeless and youth in Kent, reflects a broader commitment to community and long-term social improvement.
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