Our team is comprised of a carefully selected group of skilled individuals with a wide range of experience. We pride ourselves on working as a unified team to deliver each project to an exceptional standard.
Meet our studio leaders below.
Craig Tan | Director
Scale savvy, strategic and commercially sensitive
Craig is an exceptional creative thinker, analyst, designer, and artist He works adeptly within and across all dimensions and disciplines at once: interiors, architectural and urban. Visionary ideas are translated with his artistic freehand drawings. This ‘multidiscipli-verse’ capability is unique and is being honed as the years and project challenges evolve.
Craig has carefully and rapidly curated an astral career: first working on community projects with Greg Burgess, to high-density design and feasibility at SJB, Project and Design Architect for New Acton Nishi in Canberra at Fender Katsalidis, and 5 years in London, where he was a project director at Adjaye Associates. Craig started his signature firm in 2011 and works across Australia with select international projects.
Michael Hughes | Studio Leader / Associate
Strategic and highly skilled, Michael is our Studio Leader / Associate, and brings eloquent stakeholder management skills to the table. Registered in Australia and the UK, and with 10 years of experience, Michael excels at client liaison, design development, and project delivery. Sentient to harmonising stakeholder aspirations he utilises his excellent hand sketching skills to enact outstanding outcomes throughout the course of a project.
With a broad outlook, Michael is involved with office management helping to oversee and programme project workflows to ensure amazing outcomes for our clients and collaborators. Prior to joining us, he led the delivery of complex retail, commercial, tertiary education, and housing projects. He has a passion for sustainability, working on adaptive re-use projects, and is a champion of mental health.
Stephanie Bott | Associate
Sublime design talent with the Midas’ touch
Steph is a quietly spoken and bravely brilliant designer who brings and enriches her amazing design pedigree from the United Kingdom to our studio. Her exceptional design talents apply to architecture and interiors alike. She plays a key role across all design projects, where she contributes fresh insights and ideas, delicate and austere details, as well as her magic talent for visualising design to capture the quality of space, texture and light. She appreciates and extends our studio design ethic and passion for excellent service.