Toni is an Associate Director and Head of our Office & Workplace sector. She works across the UK and has more than a decade of experience in new build and refurbishment office projects, Cat A, Cat B and flex space.
She’s particularly enthusiastic about the challenges and joys of discovering and reinventing existing buildings for their next lease of life. Toni also works across wider private sectors, collaborating with colleagues on adaptive reuse and mixed-use regeneration.
If you weren’t in this career, what would you be?
I’m a big fan of the TV programme Salvage Hunters having watched pretty much every episode during the pandemic. I’d be quite happy going up and down the country in a van looking for hidden antique treasures. I also like the idea of running a café so perhaps I’d open an Antiques Centre where people can get a bite to eat amongst interesting objects.
Best book you’ve read?
I read for moments of mindlessness and the chance to relax and escape, so I tend to read pretty ‘trashy’ novels. However, the best non-fiction book I’ve read is Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, which is a data-based exploration of gender bias arising in medical research, product design, technology and policy. It’s eye-opening.
Industry involvement:
- British Council for Offices
- RIBA Student Mentoring Scheme
- Workspace Design Show Advisory Board Member (2024)
- Women in Property Regional Chair (2023)
- New London Architecture Expert Panel for Work (2020-21)
- Toni writes and speaks regularly on design and industry issues: The art of retrofit: finding value in vintage | BE News
