Commercial workplace, hospitality, retail and leisure architecture. One lean team, fiercely in the client's corner.
For too long, the standard route has asked clients to pay a premium for someone else's risk. Designers are novated to a main contractor who owns the design and the budget, margin is stacked on every package, and quality is value-engineered away because the designer answers to the builder, not the client.
We see it differently because we have sat on both sides of that table. TX2 pairs top-tier design leadership with the in-house project management and cost consultancy of DECON and the interiors expertise of Tanner + Partners. One appointment. One accountable team. Design quality, cost certainty and delivery discipline without the layers, margins and finger-pointing of the traditional supply chain.
We move with relentless energy, we strip away the noise, and we keep control of design quality to the very end, because the architect who draws it should be the architect who sees it built.
Combined experience in leading global practices
Combined value of projects led by our team
Continents: UK, Europe, Asia and Australia
Group trading history behind the practice
Lifted directly from the Tanner + Partners wordmark: full-width bar, the stem set just below it, the diagonal cut at its shoulder. It carries the design lineage of the practice into the new name.
Drawn to the DECON geometry, so both parents are present in the mark. The multiplication sign: the partners, sectors and disciplines the T is multiplied by.
Raised to cap height like a mathematical power. Specialism, skill and expertise are not added together, they are squared: an exponential effect that only comes from working as one.
Experts driven to do things better, working together rather than apart, produce an outcome greater than the sum of their parts. It is a disruptive idea in an industry built on silos, and it is who we are.
We are experts. We are disruptive. We are TX2.
Canary Wharf, London E14
A start-up brand, a Grade I dock wall and an outline consent to work within. The scheme sets three lightweight, translucent pavilions along the quay, opens the dock edge to the public and is costed, sequenced and pre-app'd by one team, in eleven weeks from instruction. Design, planning, cost and delivery, one appointment.
Full facade replacement and Cat A refurbishment of a Foster + Partners building for GPE. Project architect through delivery; pre-let and sold prior to completion.
Delivered · BREEAM Excellent
Grosvenor Asia's first net-zero-ready development in Ginza. Project architect for the winning front-end competition, RIBA 0–2/3.
Competition win
New-build five-star hotel operated by Kerzner. Project lead across three assets within the masterplan, including the re-purposing of a submarine lift into a cultural venue.
RIBA 2–3 · Project lead
Resort masterplan assets: hospitality and residential. Day-to-day project leadership through RIBA 2–4, coordinating global studios.
RIBA 2–4 · Project lead
Cultural, education and retail on the city's defining commercial address. A new glazed pavilion and retail hall inserted into a landmark modernist campus.
Feasibility
A waterfront light installation activating the harbour edge, led by James Russell: one of a series across New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Brussels and London.
PlacemakingProject experience gained by TX2's leadership at previous practices, including Woods Bagot, HKS, DSK and the CBRE Design Collective, unless stated.
TX2 delivers commercial workplace, hospitality, retail and leisure architecture from RIBA Stage 0 to 6, led by architects with track records at respected global practices.
20–50,000 sq ft Cat B fit-out and refurbishment for professional services, technology, financial and creative occupiers.
Cat A+ and fitted product, amenity and repositioning, pairing design quality with DECON's landlord relationships.
Hotels, aparthotels and resort assets, from London conversions to five-star international destinations.
Architecture alongside T+P Design's interiors heritage: flagships, restaurants, active-lifestyle and padel venues.
Masterplanning and placemaking input, public realm and waterfront assets of placemaking significance.
Specialist environments led by architects with track records in healthcare, research and campus buildings.
Everything follows from the same first conversation.
The standard Design & Build route asks clients to pay a premium for someone else's risk, and hands control of design quality to the contractor. We deliver differently: DECON manages the project and procures trade packages directly, while the architect keeps control of quality to the very end.
Fixed fee. Tested layout, costed scheme, programme.
RIBA 2–3 with DECON cost-checking every stage.
RIBA 4. Packages procured directly by DECON.
Architect on site to the end. One point of accountability.
A fixed-fee test fit with a DECON cost plan attached. Within weeks you have a tested layout, a costed scheme and a programme you can take to your board, before committing to a full appointment. Workplace strategy, feasibility and massing, full-scope architecture and interiors, landlord fitted product and integrated design + PM + cost packages all follow from the same first conversation.
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Commercial workplace, hospitality, retail and leisure architecture, RIBA Stages 0–6. Led by architects with track records at respected global practices and CBRE, designing and delivering landmark buildings of placemaking significance.
Sixteen years of client-first interior design for some of the most iconic brands on the high street: F&B, luxury retail and leisure. No house style: concept, technical and 3D under one roof.
Project management and quantity surveying specialists in fit-out and refurbishment. Procurement, programme and commercial control from the same table as the design team, with ultimate accountability for the outcome.
“We don't just do drawings. We provide a delivered outcome: better value, protected quality, transparent cost.”
The Tanner + Partners group, formed following the 2025 merger of Tanner Design and Decon Design. TX2 is the group's architecture practice: the design lead inside an already-proven delivery machine.
Fifteen years in commercial and workplace architecture with Woods Bagot, HKS and CBRE, where he led the London studio architecture practice. Project lead on schemes from £13m flagships to £500m+ international landmarks.
Over 30 years in interior architecture. Twenty years building Tanner Design into a respected, client-first design house serving iconic high-street brands.
Day-to-day leadership of project delivery and production, running the studio's projects with the discipline of a delivery-first practice.
A globally respected design leader providing design direction, crits and introductions: credibility, trust and a long black book to the practice's board.
The lowest-risk way to work with TX2 is a fixed-fee test fit with a DECON cost plan attached. You get a tested layout, a costed scheme and a programme you can take to your board, and we get to show you how one accountable team works before you commit to a full appointment.
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