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Announcing the Cosentino x Gaggenau Saturday Indesign Milan trip winner!
In the middle of Melbourne’s winter, Saturday Indesign got designers and enthusiasts alike out in droves to see the latest releases from the best suppliers. One showroom partnership, in particular, had something special up for grabs – and now a winner has been chosen…
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A retail renaissance
The Shopping Space category for the INDE.Awards focuses on retail projects that exemplify design and caters to changing consumer behaviours.
Dissections
Red Energy Melbourne
Pavilions, hubs, neighbourhoods, precincts and the like are fast becoming a popular staple in the agile workplace diet – but why? In their latest project for Red Energy Melbourne, iconic studio Carr sees the significance of these spaces as allowing users to claw back some personal ownership of their working environment.
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The next echelon of design hotel: Carr’s United Places
United Places Botanic Gardens pioneers a new level of luxury travel for Melbourne and its design lovers.
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Open House Melbourne’s booked buildings: Our Top 10 picks
Open House Melbourne is just around the corner. Some of the best buildings to experience, however, require a booking and the demand is high. We’ve picked out the top 10 buildings to bookmark ahead of the click frenzy this Friday.
Articles
The red revolution: Red Energy by Carr Design leaves a distinct mark on the commercial landscape
Is there anything as dynamic as a revolution? Rapid, rambunctious, and radical, revolutions are often over as swiftly as they begin, leaving behind a swirl of rubble to be rebuilt and rearranged into something new. In short: revolutions are great, but they can only last so long.
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5 pubs with intoxicatingly good bar design
The hospitality revolution is here, and bar design has never been hotter. Here are five great places to drink in some great design amongst the cocktails.
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The Odyssey: Jackalope Hotel by Carr
Luxury used to mean the consumption of precious objects and items. Then it became the consumption of exclusive services. Now, it’s all about “transformative experiences” – this is luxury 3.0. Carr is pioneering this outrageous new archetype with one of 2017’s most Instagrammed projects. But here’s what your social feed might not have told you about the Jackalope Hotel…
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Collins Square Events Centre by Carr Design Group
Carr Design Group combines corporate, residential and hospitality design principles for a diverse and flexible function space at the Collins Square Events Centre. Have they created the ultimate new design typology for next-gen hospitality? We think yes…
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BCG Digital Ventures By Carr: “You Wanna Learn? Then It’s Time To Get Uncomfortable.”
Change is uncomfortable – agonising even, but non-negotiable in modern professional culture. Here, design has a responsibility to create spaces that not only allow change to happen, but that make the otherwise thorny process of ‘self-education’ an engaging, positive one.
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Meet The New Leaders At The Helm Of Team Carr
Carr celebrates some exciting new leadership appointments in support of strong growth and expanding the studio.
Articles
From the Floor, Up: Walking on Luxury
Australia’s prime architects and developers know that the best finishing touch on a project is a finished floor – and only the best-quality and most sustainable materials will do!
People
Deconstructing the Boys Club
Indesign Luminary Sue Carr was recently named one of Australia’s most influential women. We chat to the entrepreneur, industry influencer and inspired architect about breaking down barriers in A+D.
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Aickin Chambers by Carr Design
Aickin Chambers in Melbourne is hardly Google HQ, but with an interesting, artistic installation of wine-hued leather bound legal texts, the office is at once sincere and smart.