Elena Kella
Architect and Director

Elena is a RIBA Chartered Architect, director and co-founder of Manea Kella. She is driven to deliver the highest standards of architecture and interior design. Her ambition is to maintain a similarly rigorous attention to detail regardless of the project scale. Elena previously worked at Patel Taylor where she gathered substantial experience delivering large-scale masterplans with a powerful sense of place. Elena is currently leading Tracon’s Head Office, a high performance workplace that will provide choice and balance between work modes. The project calls for interventions that celebrate the building’s complex history and unlock the hidden potential of its spaces.

Adrian Manea
Architect and Director

Adrian is a RIBA Chartered Architect, director and co-founder of Manea Kella. He offers a personalised approach to architecture that ranges in scale from single residences to the extension of cities. Adrian led Casa Popeea, working closely with the client to transform the listed property into an eleven room boutique hotel, delivering high quality facilities that enhance the experience of guests and members of the public. Prior to establishing Manea Kella together with Elena Kella, Adrian worked on innovative mixed-use development projects at high profile architecture companies in the UK such as Gensler and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands. 

Caroline Chong
Architectural Assistant

Caroline is a Part 2 equivalent architectural assistant from the University of Melbourne, where she completed her course in 2015 with Deans Honours. She is interested in the sensory elements of spaces, from the interplay of light and shadow to the textural and tonal qualities of materials. Prior to joining Manea Kella in 2021, she worked in Melbourne at an award winning architecture practice where she gained experience across civic, commercial and residential projects. She is currently working on the creative adaptation of a disused historic manor in Bucharest, which will become a new community hub with workspaces, cafe and events spaces.

Eugenia Pavone
Architect

Eugenia is an architect with experience in the architecture and planning industries within France and the UK. Prior to joining Manea Kella in 2021, Eugenia worked at award winning architecture firm, Coffey Architects, where she was engaged in residential, commercial and educational projects, including extensions and refurbishments to the City University Library and an office building for the British Land Head Office. She is currently working on house projects in London, as well as a multi-residential building in Brăila, Romania, which aims to weave 8 new apartments into a disused site containing building fabric of social significance.

Timothy Bedingfield
Senior Architect

Tim is an architect with extensive experience in a range of residential work, from high quality houses to large scale residential masterplans. He is fascinated by the ways that buildings actively shape and positively contribute to the social fabric of cities. Prior to joining Manea Kella in 2021, he worked at Burgess Architects and Panter Huspith Architects, where he collaboratively delivered Orchard Gardens, a mixed-use housing development in Elephant and Castle. Tim is currently leading Eden Gardens, an environmentally driven mixed-use masterplan located on the Black Sea coast.