Tzannes Associates has provided exemplary architectural, urban design, and interior design services since 1983. The studio-based practice employs more than 40 professional staff working collaboratively to aligned design values developed from practice history and an engagement with contemporary architectural culture. Tzannes Associates has undertaken services throughout Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

The practice is renowned for elegant and understated architecture, produced from a disciplined research-based design process focused on the relationship between a building, its context and function.

Each architectural proposal is derived from original research and the application of guiding design principles. The intent is to thoroughly understand, and respond to, the particular circumstances of each project to achieve a refined design outcome that fulfils the brief. A key element of urban work is delivering an appropriate balance between the objectives of approving authorities and those of the client.

Combined with a sophisticated understanding of architecture including construction processes, this approach has developed unique, sustainable and cost effective techniques across a broad range of building types materials and technologies.

Project experience includes new urban infrastructure, mixed-use buildings, commercial and retail facilities, and substantial residential development including private homes. The practice is often engaged to undertake public and civic works including complex urban design in sensitive urban areas.

For its distinguished and consistently successful architecture, urban and interior design, the practice has been recognised with over 40 awards including national planning, institutional, residential and interior awards from the Planning and Architects Institutes of Australia. The work of the studio is frequently published in national and international architecture journals.

Tzannes’ buildings are well received by clients and by the profession, acclaimed as appropriate to place, durable in conception, commercially astute, fit for purpose and aesthetic in effect.