In 2005, architect Thomas Pucher founded Atelier Thomas Pucher and has since been shaping not only Graz’s building landscape with his projects.

The numerous awards his buildings have received attest to their popularity. He has been awarded the Best Architects Award four times in a row: in 2011 for the residential building “Tartu Rebase Street” in Estonia, in 2012 for the office building NIK at Nikolaiplatz in Graz, which was created in cooperation with Bramberger Architects. This was followed in 2013 by the award for the Villa SK project, a villa in Graz, and finally in 2014 for the Welcome Tower, the redesign of an office complex from the 1960s. In 2016, Thomas Pucher was once again awarded for NIK, this time with the GerambRose, awarded by BauKultur Steiermark on the topic of “working environments.”

Atelier Thomas Pucher’s office currently employs 45 people, making it one of the largest architecture firms in Graz. International, national, and regional projects shape the portfolio: Atelier Thomas Pucher won first prize in international competitions for the music school in Tallinn, Estonia, and the new Symphony building in Warsaw, Poland.

Another winning project, the “Amstetten School Campus,” a new campus that combines several high schools, including a music school, was completed in 2014. NIK, one of the currently most famous building projects in Graz, has been shaping the image of the left bank of the Mur River since 2010 and has become a landmark, just like the Welcome Tower at Graz’s main train station.

Urban design and the densification of living space with simultaneous expansion of green spaces is also a special concern for Thomas Pucher. In 2016, he took over the organization and implementation of the Urban Future Global Conference in Graz, putting Graz in the focus of international experts in the field of urban development and urban planning. The central theme of the conference dealt with a core issue of current urban planning in Graz, in which Atelier Thomas Pucher is involved with several projects that are design-oriented and groundbreaking. For the architect Pucher, Smart City means above all: living and working in the neighborhood, green space, and active use of public space.