Neil Deely
Metropolitan Workshop was established in 2005 by Neil Deely and
David Prichard who are both former Directors of MacCormac Jamieson
Prichard.
Neil has led the design of several major urban
projects and including the concept design stages of the
redevelopment of Broadcasting House for the BBC at Portland Place
and the Museum of Conflict in Tripoli. He was the project architect
for Jersey Archive, completed in June 2000, one of the largest
passively conditioned archive buildings in the world. In addition
to this he has also led the design of several high density mixed
use developments in locations including Cambridge, Dublin and
S’Hertogenbosch. Neil has experience of designing in sensitive
contexts, conservation or heritage areas such as Durham and
Westminster.
In addition to leading several urban design
commissions for Oslo, Bergen and Dublin City Councils, Neil has led
the design of two major District Centres for new towns in southern
Ireland. His experience as an architect also encompasses the
disciplines of town planning/residential masterplanning and
Academic masterplanning.
Neil has tutored and lectured at numerous
schools of architecture in the UK and abroad and is a fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts. In 2004 Neil was appointed to the National
Panel of CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built
Environment) Enablers and in 2007 appointed to the CABE National
Design Review Panel. In September 2009 Neil was invited to become
member of the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation
Planning Committee.