TANDEM is a forum where concepts are developed, nurtured & edited in collaboration.

As such, we seek for our practice to contribute towards achieving prosperity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples. We aim for design processes which crucially integrate consultation with Traditional Custodians and aim for our projects to stand in recognition of the continuous relationship to Country.

The best schools blend future possibility with the particularities of the moment. Supporting the needs of a community, long, short & medium term only comes from a process of meaningful engagement.

Successful retail markets are major experiential centres where the diversity of offerings combine to create a true intergenerational community asset.

Sustainability, whether by design, materiality or adoption of sustainable principles is the only way forward.

Adaptability & flexibility, both long & short term are the key elements of a lasting place.

We strive to work with others who bring new ways of seeing/doing to the practice and enrich the process.

As well as responding to change, our cities need to throw the dice & anticipate new ways to live and be.

Heritage is about understanding significance; why the building matters, why it exists. Engagement with the specific character of a place brings value beyond the brief.

We approach public space with a social impulse to make enduring, engaging and inclusive places that remain flexible and can be adapted to multiple uses.

Structures of obsolescence can become theatres of economic and social renewal.

This page is a tribute to founding designer, Dominique Ng.  An empty page is often where ideas begin, and when this is taken away, memory remains. Vale Dominique.