As a practice, Carr readily embraces opportunities to expand and develop our understanding of workplace design. Earlier this month, Associate Director Catherine Keys attended WORKTECH25 in Melbourne, a conference for all those involved in the future of work. Highlighting how leading companies are adapting through research-based approaches and innovative office concepts in the workplace, the event reinforces the powerful relationship between design and the latest research.

For this year’s International Women’s Day, Carr Associate Stephanie Poole sat down with Charlotte Huston for a studio-wide conversation about her career journey, learnings, and thoughts on this year’s IWD theme, ‘Accelerate Action’.

As companies, particularly law firms, move towards more egalitarian employment models, the physical environment must work harder to support this evolving office.

Systematic, passive and communal. These are just some adjectives to describe our latest commercial project, 116 Rokeby.

Recently completed by Carr, the new Salta Properties Head Office is a testament to the powerful interplay between a strategic briefing process and a robust design narrative.Giving weight to opposite ends of the spectrum of functionality and conviviality, our interior design reaches a harmonious equilibrium to ensure the Salta team and guests feel their best and achieve their potential while in the office.

For this year’s International Women’s Day, one of Australia’s leading furniture and product designers, Helen Kontouris, joined our studio for a conversation about her invaluable and raw insights as a female creative and professional.

For many architects, a project will present up to seven phases of design. Once considered an integral part of this process, modelmaking has increasingly been sidelined due to competing technology and shortening timelines. Associate Director David Brooks – one of Carr’s modelmaking advocates – discusses why the craft is the most honest device within an architect’s toolkit.

Having grown up surrounded by large-scale Victorian linen mills in Belfast – one of the most prominent cities impacted by the Industrial Revolution – Associate Director Stephen McGarry is fascinated by the craftsmanship, human scale tactility, and resilience of bricks.